Details

Subjects:

Asian American women -- Fiction.
Gays -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
Asian American women.
Gays.
Nineteen twenties.

Form/Genre:

Fantasy fiction.
Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

A Tom Doherty Associates book.

Related Work:

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

Other format:

Online version: Vo, Nghi. Chosen and the beautiful.

ISBN:

9781250784780
1250784786
9781250784797

OCLC:

1240265463