Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book grabbed me and lived in my soul while I read it. I was absolutely pulled into the world that Sara DiVello created, and I was entranced by her character sketches.
This isn’t a story about solving a crime (it’s a true crime story from early in the 20th century), instead DiVello uses the characters and the setting to take us on a journey through the American zeitgeist at that time (with some obvious allusions to…today).
This book somehow manages to be a fast read (one I didn’t want to stop reading) and a slow read (one that takes its time to draw out the characters, the setting, and the mystery.) Broadway Butterfly was one of those books that, when I was finished, I had to take a moment to re-center myself back in my actual life.
This is a great, compelling, fascinating world and an even better story.
