| 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 review 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.