Study Guides by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a novel told entirely in the form of an oral history — a retrospective interview transcript in which the surviving members of a fictional 1970s rock band recount, in their own words, how they rose to fame, how they made one of the greatest albums of their era, and how, on July 12, 1979, it all fell apart on stage in Chicago. The band's story is inseparable from the story of two people: Billy Dunne, the charismatic and self-destructive frontman of The Six, and Daisy Jones, the wild, gifted, and fiercely independent singer-songwriter who becomes the band's co-lead and, inevitably, the gravitational force that reshapes everything around her. Through competing memories, contradictions, and silences, Reid builds a portrait of creativity, desire, addiction, loyalty, and what it costs to love something — a person, a sound, a life — more than you can bear.
View Discussion GuideThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a sweeping, deeply human novel about a fictional Old Hollywood legend who has spent decades constructing — and carefully concealing — the truth of her life. Now in her seventies and living in reclusive luxury in New York City, Evelyn Hugo summons an unknown young magazine journalist named Monique Grant to write her authorized biography. As Evelyn unspools the story of her seven marriages, her stratospheric rise from a poor Cuban-American girl in Hell's Kitchen to the most glamorous movie star in the world, a far more private and profound love story gradually comes into focus. Reid's novel is, at its heart, a meditation on the costs of ambition, the violence of self-erasure, and what it means to love someone completely in a world that will not let you.
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