1940: 19-year-old Vivian arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine. Although her talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll have been deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, she soon finds employment as the self-appointed seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, her unconventional Aunt Peg's charmingly disreputable Manhattan revue theatre. The brilliant new novel from the author of the international bestseller "Eat Pray Love".