An Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! A B&N Reads April Pick! A Most
Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine | USA Today | Buzzfeed | Greatist | BookPage |
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| Culturess | Book Riot | Parade Magazine | Kirkus | The Week | Book Bub | OverDrive | The
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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.
