Savannah, it turns out, is catatonic, and before the suicide attempt had completely assumed the identity of a dead friend-the implication being that she couldn't stand being a Wingo anymore. When he hears that his fierce, beautiful twin sister Savannah, a well-known New York poet, has once again attempted suicide, he escapes his present emasculation by flying north to meet Savannah's comely psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man. With magic creeping in around the edges, this is a unique, well-developed, and haunting Gatsby retelling.Ī flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent. Astonishingly crafted, with luscious prose and appeal for both fans of the original and those who always felt The Great Gatsby missed the mark. Vo has crafted a retelling that, in many ways, surpasses the original, adding logic and depth to characters’ motivations while still-uncannily-unspooling the familiar story. Between magic-filled parties at Gatsby’s house and whispers of dark bargains, Jordan watches the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby unravel over the course of the summer, at the same time struggling with her own relationship to Daisy and eventually coming to question her place in their society.
But Gatsby is different: lacking in something and single-mindedly focused on winning Daisy back. After the deaths of her guardians, Jordan moves to New York City, where she reunites with her friend Daisy meets Daisy’s cousin Nick Carraway, newly returned from the war and learns that Jay Gatsby, whom she and Daisy knew in Louisville, is Nick’s neighbor. Generally regarded as a curiosity, Jordan has made the best of her situation, kissing boys and girls and overindulging on imported bottles of demoniac, taking care not to dwell for too long on the things that make her different. Jordan, born in Vietnam, was adopted by the Bakers as a child, launching her into a world of old money and magic different from her own. Jordan Baker recounts the story of Daisy Buchanan and her ill-fated relationship with Jay Gatsby.
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