While especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college and university library Literary Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that "The Chosen and the Beautiful" is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $13.99). She just has to learn how.Ĭritique: With a distinctive narrative storytelling style, author Nghi Vo's debut LBGTQ novel "The Chosen and the Beautiful" reinvents 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 lesbian 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. Synopsis: 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.
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