107. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo and adapting the classics for modern readers
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The Great Gatsby
With a retelling or an adaptation you want the book to stand on its own like as just a good book. I don't know if I would have enjoyed it as much if I hadn't read the great Gatsby so where do you kind of fall on that with the chosen and the beautiful? "I'm okay if you have to have read the original to really fully get the adaptation" she says. 'It's source material not just plot' NIVO has things to say that feel really relevant for today in the chosen andthebeautiful.
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