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| Libba Bray's The Diviners, as published in Italy. |
Libba Bray's new young adult / teen novel, The Diviners, is set in 1920's New York City. It's story centers on Evie O'Neil, and features speakeasies, movie palaces, glamorous Ziegfield girls, rakish pickpockets, and a rash of occult-based murder.
Kirkus Reviews said of The Diviners, "1920s New York thrums with giddy life in this gripping first in a new
[series] from Printz winner Bray...The intricate plot and magnificently
imagined details of character, dialogue and setting take hold and don't
let go. Not to be missed."
The book contains a couple of references to Louise Brooks. One character, a Ziegfield girl named Theta Knight, is described as having "jet-black hair" cut into a "Louise Brooks shingle bob with bangs." Later, it is mentioned that Hollywood scouts were backstage and on the look-out for the "next Louise Brooks or Eddie Cantor."
The book has been published in a handful of countries, including Italy, where its cover (pictured above) features a Louise Brooks look-alike contemporary model sometimes mistaken for the actress. Thanks to Italian Brooks-scholar Gianluca Chiovelli for pointing this out! (He described the cover as "not Brooksian;
Brooksiesque.") Here the book's American promotional video.
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