Book description
One of Glamour's Best Books of the Decade and a Best Book of Summer at AM New York, Moda Operandi, GOOP, Publishers Weekly, TIME, Southern Living, and Thrillist.
Inspired by the real-life relationship between the heiress Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter, Pegeen, Costalegre is the tender and touching story of…
Why read it?
1 author picked Costalegre as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love books that are 1. Set in exotic locations, and 2. Based on true people or events (because I’m exceptionally lazy about learning history any other way), and 3. Epistolary.
This book is set in a heavily tropical area of Mexico, and it’s the journal entries of a teenager based on Peggy Guggenheim’s daughter. This fictionalized girl has every material thing she could ever want, along with a houseful of artist guests who have arrived to escape Hitler’s tightening regime. But what remains constantly out of reach for the girl is the attention of her beautiful, mercurial mother. This…
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