The Chosen and the Beautiful

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 - PopSugar - Bustle - The Nerd Daily - Goodreads - Literary Hub - Ms. Magazine - Library Journal - Culturess - Book Riot - Parade Magazine - Kirkus - The Week - Book Bub - OverDrive - 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 reviewImmigrant. 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.