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. 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. Other retailers: Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | MacMillan Publishing | Google Play | AudibleĪdd to your Bookbub | Goodreads TBR! Synopsis Genre: LGBTQ+ Fantasy Fiction, Coming of Age, Literary Fictionīuy Independent! Books-A-Million | | IndieBound | Powells Type: standalone, fiction/history-retelling
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