Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s historical fiction novel Daisy Jones & The Six, published in 2019, is a contemporary work of fiction that explores the rich music culture of the 1970s in the United States. This time was known for rock ’n’ roll, partly as a cultural response to the strict rules of the 1960s and the disaster of the Vietnam War. The California dream world of hard partying, no rules, and freedom persists as a major theme through this fictional biography.

The narration is told from the point of view of several characters speaking in interviews for a fictional biography about the band The Six, later known as Daisy Jones & The Six. The multilayered narration provides different interpretations of the same events in chronological order, and this fictional oral history highlights just how complicated a seemingly simple story can be.

Reid, known her use of journalist techniques in her fiction, is the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, and Forever Interrupted. Recently developed by Amazon Studios for a television adaptation, Daisy Jones & The Six is also a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club book.