Alison Stewart, host of WNYC’s All Of It, continues her virtual book club series with author Nghi Vo.
Our August pick, Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful, puts a magical realism lens on a classic story in what NPR calls “a vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s [The Great Gatsby].“ In this ingenious sequel to the American classic, we meet a new, yet familiar protagonist.
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.
To help transport us back to the Jazz Age, our musical guest will be ac
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