The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo [in Shelf Awareness]
13 May, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American
Everyone and every place remain assuredly familiar here: Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, Myrtle and George drink, dance, manipulate and die throughout East Egg, West Egg, Nick's cottage, Gatsby's mansion, the Plaza suite, and the green-lit dock. But Nghi Vo's first novel (after novellas The...