Why read Daughters of Chaos?

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An epic novel about Civil War-era Nashville's "public women," an age-old secret society, and the earth-shaking power of the female

"A beautiful spinning knife of a story that whirls back through the 1800s, the 1500s, the 4th century BC, and the age of myth to slice out an image of…

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1 author picked Daughters of Chaos as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Diane Josefowicz

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I adored this whipsmart novel about Sylvie Swift, a bold and brilliant young woman who, in 1862, lights out for Nashville, Tennessee, where she is immediately recruited to work as a spy for the chief of the Union Army's Secret Service while also chasing down a mysterious manuscript that may or may not be a version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Not only that -- she also becomes absorbed in the threatened world of the city's prostitutes, who offer her company and shelter, and who really were threatened with exile by Nashville's government during the Civil War. Such a rich and complex…

From Diane's 3 favorite reads in 2024.