The chosen and the beautiful

ISBN: 9781250784780
Physical Description: 262 pages ; 22 cm regular print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Tordotcom, 2021
Copyright: &copy;2021

Vo, Nghi (author.). Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Great Gatsby. (Added Author).

Summary: "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 and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee 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."--