The chosen and the beautiful / Nghi Vo.

Vo, Nghi, author

Book

First edition.

New York : Tordotcom, 2021.

©2021.

262 pages ; 22 cm

"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 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Asian American women -- Fiction.

Gay people -- Fiction.

Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.

Magic -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Adaptation of: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby.

Chosen & the beautiful

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

9781250784780

46

0

1

1

39