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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