A review by cassieyorke
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott

5.0

This visceral, colorful account of the rise and fall of George Remus instantly won a special place in my heart. Not only is it meticulously researched and breathtakingly told, but Karen Abbot truly brings 1920s Cincinnati to life - or maybe she takes you back to it, just for a little while. She somehow captures the wistful longing of a time long gone, and captures all the optimism, tragedy, and vague sadness of that decade as beautifully as F. Scott Fitzgerald did. I'm keeping this as close to my writing space as I do Gatsby and Flappers and Philosophers. I don't know that I've ever been taken back in time like this.

If it means anything, this book set me alight with its beauty and helped spark the inspiration to finish my debut novel, "Mary, Everything".

And the book's ending is a perfect coup de grace.