Book Beginnings and Friday 56: The Chosen and the Beautiful

Posted June 2, 2023 by Whitney in Friday Memes / 4 Comments

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Beginning:

I ran a hand over my stomach.  I was going to be sick.

Friday 56

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Page 56

He closed the file.  “Well, I can tell you, at this rate you won’t make it three years.  In case it’s not obvious, dear, if you don’t do any work, you won’t be staying here.  In fact, if you fail two more classes, you’ll be asked to leave the school.”

The Book:

Book Beginnings and Friday 56: The Chosen and the BeautifulThe Chosen and the Beautiful
by Nghi Vo
Pages: 260
Publication Date June 1, 2021
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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, Asian, adopted, and 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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