The Chosen and the Beautiful - 262 pages - $26.99 - Tordotcom Daisy nudged Jordan to show her, and while Jordan was bracing for a look of disappointment on Daisy’s face, a twisting, roaring lion materialized as the scissors glided on red cardstock paper.
Determined to hold Daisy’s attention with the promise of “exotic” stories of a foreign land, Jordan spun whimsical tales of things unheard of before, finally exhibiting the magical practice of “paper cutting,” as she describes a dancing lion made from paper that was brought to life. It is clear from their first encounter that Jordan, whatever her appearance, was no ordinary girl on any level. Curiously, she was also the first person in Jordan’s new life who made her feel seen: “Mother said that you were no different from the ones who wash out clothes, but you are different, aren’t you? Jordan from Tonkin was destined to live a lonely life, until a young Daisy Buchanan snuck into her room during an evening of a party.ĭaisy was everything Jordan was not: white, adored, lusciously wrapped in charm and gold. Adults treated her inferiorly, likening her to the maids and hid her in her bedroom during house parties. Thrusted into the parameters of a foreign land and upper-class society, Jordan was quickly made aware of how her Vietnamese appearance sets her apart from everyone else. The plot of the novel: As a child living in wartime Tonkin (or Vietnam), Jordan was “saved” and brought to Louisville, Kentucky by Eliza Baker, a missionary and daughter of the opulent Baker family. Sultry, sharp, and scrumptious - Nghi Vo takes the reader on a piquant ironic journey that is impossible to resist. Nghi Vo boldly disagrees - in fact, this exclusive social circle, novelist Nghi Vo insists, is missing someone - it is missing a reinvented Jordan Baker, and The Chosen and the Beautiful lives up to its name, whether entrancing plotlines, ethereal language, thoughtful themes, to characters so masterfully constructed that they become part of you. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has been, if anything, overly explored by critics and readers worldwide. ANGELINE KEK WRITES - Cemented as one of the more influential novels in literary culture, F.
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