Magical Realism
by Nghi Vo
In this lush reimagining of The Great Gatsby, Jordan Baker is a queer Vietnamese adoptee navigating the glittering, cruel world of 1920s high society where magic is real and casually deployed by the wealthy. As she falls into the orbit of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and the captivating Daisy Buchanan, Jordan must reckon with her precarious place in a world that sees her as both exotic ornament and permanent outsider. A spellbinding remix that centers the marginalized and makes the familiar utterly strange.
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