Retold from the perspective of Daisy Buchanan’s best friend, amateur golfer Jordan Baker-here recharacterized as a wealthy Louisville missionary family’s adopted Vietnamese daughter-the familiar contours of Fitzgerald’s tragedy are warped with a hazy dash of demonic and earthly magic. And yet, in The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo perfectly strikes that balance of the new and the familiar. This dilemma is only heightened when the book in question is as widely read as F. Too much and fans will shun it out of pique too little and they’ll shun it out of disinterest. Adapting classic works of literature is always challenging, not least because the adapting author must decide how much novelty is appropriate.
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