A USA Today bestseller! From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead , a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful , her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby . “A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was captivated from the first sentence.”―NPR on The Chosen and the Beautiful Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922. On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face one very dark night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him. In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home. Featured in Polygon
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Most Anticipated at LGBTQ Reads, The Mary Sue, Book Riot, LitHub, and more "While familiarity with both The Chosen and the Beautiful and The Great Gatsby enriches the reading experience, this haunting tale stands confidently apart from its predecessors and newcomers will have no trouble diving into Vo’s lyrical exploration of identity, longing, and the price of immortality... It’s an unadulterated joy to return to Vo’s queer, phantasmagoric take on Fitzgerald’s world ."― Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[P]ainful and emotional, the story of an unrequited love so self-destructive that it could bring about Nick’s very end... Vo’s writing is as charming and rich as ever ."― Booklist "Haunting.... Vo's prose is magical and visceral ."― Library Journal "If you’ve ever yearned for a sequel to The Great Gatsby, Nghi Vo has you covered. "―LitHub Praise for Nghi Vo and The Chosen and the Beautiful An Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! Locus Award Finalist! A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine
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Tatler HK A Best Fantasy Novel from the Last 10 Years for Book Riot A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR “Deserves to be read alongside the book that inspired it. Vo’s prose is beautifully supple, and the novel shines when she reads “Gatsby” against the grain... A sumptuous, decadent read.”― The New York Times "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."―Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen “A luminous shift in perspective for a classic, this retelling will never let you look at Gatsby the same way.”― TIME Magazine “Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful isn’t just The Great Gatsby in jeans, it’s a work of art in its own right. This queer romance has everything: Intrigue, betrayal and magic. Vo manages to tackle big ideas about race and inclusion and to keep it all sensual and erotic without exoticizing Asian women. The Chosen and the Beautiful is a masterfully wrought update on an American classic."― Today “I love it with the passion of a thousand burning hearts... Vo’s audacious amendments shift the register of “ The Great Gatsby ,” creating a story that galvanizes Fitzgerald’s classic and leaves a new one vibrating alongside... from the old bones of an American classic, Vo has conjured up something magically alive.”― The Washington Post “This is a wholly enthralling vision of the American Dream as observed and experienced by one suspended in a liminal place ― accepted, but not really a part of the whole; apart, but not quite separate. Vo gives us a dreamy, sharply-drawn glamour; a vibrant, penetrating exploration of character. The Chosen and the Beautiful is exactly enough ― but why not indulge with a reread?”―NPR "Like the bouquet off the finest vintage found in Gatsby’s cellar, magic suffuses and floats off the pages of Nghi Vo’s THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL. It is more than a reimagining of a classic; it is a work of art unique in its voice, viewpoint, and effervescent prose. Her words slice like a paper cut, yet in their healing, they leave one marked forever."―James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Vo has crafted a retelling that, in many ways, surpasses the original.”― Kirkus Reviews, starred review on The Chosen and the Beautif
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Amazon Best SF&F of April
BookBub's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of Spring
Most Anticipated at LGBTQ Reads, The Mary Sue, Book Riot, LitHub, and more "While familiarity with both The Chosen and the Beautiful and The Great Gatsby enriches the reading experience, this haunting tale stands confidently apart from its predecessors and newcomers will have no trouble diving into Vo’s lyrical exploration of identity, longing, and the price of immortality... It’s an unadulterated joy to return to Vo’s queer, phantasmagoric take on Fitzgerald’s world ."― Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[P]ainful and emotional, the story of an unrequited love so self-destructive that it could bring about Nick’s very end... Vo’s writing is as charming and rich as ever ."― Booklist "Haunting.... Vo's prose is magical and visceral ."― Library Journal "If you’ve ever yearned for a sequel to The Great Gatsby, Nghi Vo has you covered. "―LitHub Praise for Nghi Vo and The Chosen and the Beautiful An Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! Locus Award Finalist! A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine
USA Today
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Greatist
BookPage
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Bustle
The Nerd Daily
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Literary Hub
Ms. Magazine
Library Journal
Culturess
Book Riot
Parade Magazine
Kirkus
The Week
Book Bub
OverDrive
The Portalist
Publishers Weekly A Best of Summer Pick for TIME Magazine
CNN
Book Riot
The Daily Beast
Lambda Literary
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Goodreads
Bustle
Veranda Magazine
The Week
Bookish
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Den of Geek
LGBTQ Reads
Pittsburgh City Paper
Bookstr
Tatler HK A Best Fantasy Novel from the Last 10 Years for Book Riot A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR “Deserves to be read alongside the book that inspired it. Vo’s prose is beautifully supple, and the novel shines when she reads “Gatsby” against the grain... A sumptuous, decadent read.”― The New York Times "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."―Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen “A luminous shift in perspective for a classic, this retelling will never let you look at Gatsby the same way.”― TIME Magazine “Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful isn’t just The Great Gatsby in jeans, it’s a work of art in its own right. This queer romance has everything: Intrigue, betrayal and magic. Vo manages to tackle big ideas about race and inclusion and to keep it all sensual and erotic without exoticizing Asian women. The Chosen and the Beautiful is a masterfully wrought update on an American classic."― Today “I love it with the passion of a thousand burning hearts... Vo’s audacious amendments shift the register of “ The Great Gatsby ,” creating a story that galvanizes Fitzgerald’s classic and leaves a new one vibrating alongside... from the old bones of an American classic, Vo has conjured up something magically alive.”― The Washington Post “This is a wholly enthralling vision of the American Dream as observed and experienced by one suspended in a liminal place ― accepted, but not really a part of the whole; apart, but not quite separate. Vo gives us a dreamy, sharply-drawn glamour; a vibrant, penetrating exploration of character. The Chosen and the Beautiful is exactly enough ― but why not indulge with a reread?”―NPR "Like the bouquet off the finest vintage found in Gatsby’s cellar, magic suffuses and floats off the pages of Nghi Vo’s THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL. It is more than a reimagining of a classic; it is a work of art unique in its voice, viewpoint, and effervescent prose. Her words slice like a paper cut, yet in their healing, they leave one marked forever."―James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Vo has crafted a retelling that, in many ways, surpasses the original.”― Kirkus Reviews, starred review on The Chosen and the Beautif