Z · A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the

first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald.

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald

at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young

army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has

fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or

even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring

him both fortune and fame.

Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This

Side of Paradise, to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to

marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it

comes.