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Gatsby Remixed: A Virtual Conversation with Nghi Vo and Anna-Marie McLemore

Ketchum | Updated: March 17, 2024 02:36 AM
Gatsby Remixed: A Virtual Conversation with Nghi Vo and Anna-Marie McLemore

Location: The Community Library

Address: 415 Spruce Avenue, Ketchum, ID 83340, United States

Date: 07 March


As part of the 2024 Winter Read of “The Great Gatsby,” join us for a virtual conversation with authors Nghi Vo and Anna-Marie McLemore, whose novels retell F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic through new lenses. Vo and McLemore will join us over Zoom, but all are welcome to join us in the Library’s John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall. Nghi Vo’s debut novel, “The Chosen and the Beautiful,” reinvents Fitzgerald’s classic as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess. In Vo’s telling, Jordan Baker is our narrator. 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 pap…
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Where is Gatsby Remixed: A Virtual Conversation with Nghi Vo and Anna-Marie McLemore in Ketchum?

The Community Library, 415 Spruce Avenue, Ketchum, ID 83340, United States

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Gatsby Remixed: A Virtual Conversation with Nghi Vo and Anna-Marie McLemore is scheduled for 07 March.

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