107. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo and adapting the classics for modern readers
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Gatsby Review - I Loved This Book
I really loved Jordan because she just, I mean, as we've discussed, she's very much this outsider. And it's the relationship between her and Daisy felt all the more real for that. There's kind of a journey that Jordan has to go on to recognize the relationship dynamic that they have. It's not a rehabilitation of Fitzgerald's Daisy but it is a more nuanced picture of her. Although even I at the same time some of those things that you detest about Daisy in the great Gatsby are really remain true in the chosen and the beautiful even in some of the scenes were their children.
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