And the author does it all while adhering pretty closely to Fitzgerald’s plot and pacing. MY THOUGHTS: Nigh Vo’s reinvention of The Great Gatsby gives voice to characters Fitzgerald barely allowed to speak and classes of people he barely acknowledged existed (if at all), and in doing so opens up the narrative in wonderful, startling ways. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess. In The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo reinvents F. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.īut the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society―she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age.

272 pages, Tordotcom Publishing, ISBN 9781250784780ĭESCRIPTION: (from the back cover): Immigrant.

The chosen and the beautiful book