Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.
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. She;s also queer, Asian, adopted, and treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.
But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.
Nghi Vo;s debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.
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My Review:
Author: Nghi Vo
Read: March 29th, 30th, 2025
Source: Library, NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing, and they're 2025 Retelling Reading Challenge Book, Historical Fiction 2025 Book and SAC 2025 Book!
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, Macmillan Audio
Published: June 1st 2021
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby.
"A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was captivated from the first sentence."―NPR on The Chosen and the Beautiful
Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922.
On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face one very dark night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him.
In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home.
My Review:
Author: Nghi Vo
Read: March 29th, 30th, 2025
Source: Library, NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing, and they're 2025 Retelling Reading Challenge Book, Historical Fiction 2025 Book and SAC 2025 Book!
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, Macmillan Audio
Published: June 1st 2021
Expected Publication: April 8th 2025
The Chosen and the Beautiful:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
Don't Sleep With the Dead:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
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