The Chosen and the Beautiful

**An Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick!** **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 the Year 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. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.