Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club: Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful
Come read with us across galaxies and through enchanted forests by joining our Science Fiction / Fantasy book club! A book club that meets once a month and reads not only sci-fi and fantasy classics, but also newer and more diverse voices in the genre. We’ll read graphic novels and short story collections, too!
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society―she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.
Nghi Vo’s debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful, reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice. (Amazon)
- Date:
- Saturday, July 19, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Library Branch:
- Central Library
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Audience:
- Adults (18+)
- Categories:
- Literacy > Book Clubs & Author Talks
