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The Beauty of Individual Things

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The Beauty of Individual Things

By: K. Thomas Yoo
Narrated by: Julia Holland
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The Beauty of Individual Things follows Margot Andrews, a young American woman swept from New York high society into the dazzling yet fractured world of 1920s London. When the transactional demands of privilege collide with betrayal and violence, leaving her disillusioned and adrift, she escapes to the freshwater shoreline of lost childhood summers.

With her past unrecoverable and her future uncertain, Margot searches for a different life amid Detroit's dynamic and monied Prohibition era — with its yacht races, rumrunners, and industrial might. Set against a city on the rise, she must navigate her family's ruthless pursuit of social standing, the magnetic pull of charismatic boat racer Ellis James, and the relentless echoes of her past. The story explores the weight of loneliness and the personal cost of love and reinvention as Margot decides whether to remain a fragile ornament of her family's design or forge and identity that is beautiful, imperfect, and entirely her own.
20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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