# Chosen and the Beautiful

**Nghi Vo**

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**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_.**

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_.
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> "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." — Taylor Jenkins Reid on _Siren Queen_.
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> “A sumptuous, decadent read.” — _The New York Times_.
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> “Vo has crafted a retelling that, in many ways, surpasses the original.” — _Kirkus Reviews_, starred review.

**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.**

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