Binding: Hardcover
Description: An Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine | US a Today | Buzzfeed | Greatist | Book Page | Pop Sugar | Bustle | The Nerd Daily | Goodreads | Literary Hub | Ms. Magazine | Library Journal | Culturess | Book Riot | Parade Magazine | Kirkus | The Week | Book Bub | Over Drive | The Portalist | Publishers Weekly A Best of Summer Pick for TIME Magazine | CNN | NBC News | CBS News | Book Riot | The Daily Beast | Lambda Literary | The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Goodreads | Bustle | Veranda Magazine | The Week | Bookish | St. Louis Post - Dispatch | Den of Geek | Lgbtq Reads | Pittsburgh City Paper | Bookstr | Tatler HK A Best Fantasy Novel from the Last 10 Years for Book Riot A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic . I was captivated from the first sentence. NPR" Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen A sumptuous decadent read. The New York Times Vo has crafted a retelling that in many ways surpasses the original. Kirkus Reviews starred review 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.
Title: The Chosen And The Beautiful
Author(s): Vo Nghi
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250784780
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2021