![]() Like the source it pulls from, The Chosen and the Beautiful is saturated in longing - soaked through as thoroughly as strawberries left overnight in vodka. Like the source it pulls from, 'The Chosen and the Beautiful' is saturated in longing - soaked through as thoroughly as strawberries left overnight in vodka. ![]() ![]() Eventually, big personalities and bigger desires come to a tragic conclusion potential is squandered and dreams dissolve. There is much ado about midwestern values corrupted by city decadence. Daisy's cousin Nick Carraway takes a house near Gatsby's and becomes complicit in Gatsby's affair with Daisy. The story's shape is familiar: Jay Gatsby constructs a dazzling life for Daisy Buchanan, his lost love who is now married to the ultraconventional and philandering Tom. ![]() I was captivated from the first sentence. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic The Great Gatsby, only this time we watch the tragedy unspool from Jordan Baker's perspective, Gatsby has literally sold his soul, and the speakeasy crowd occasionally adds a drop of demon's blood (demoniac) to their cocktails in order to really get a kick. Fortunately for us, The Chosen and the Beautiful exists - a vibrant and queer reinvention of F. One expects to find novels like this on the shelves of a dream library, where all the great books that were never written reside - a tempting what could've been but wasn't. ![]()
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