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Don't Sleep with the Dead

by Nghi Vo
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From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby.
"A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was captivated from the first sentence."―NPR on The Chosen and the Beautiful
Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922.
On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face one very dark night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him.
In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home.
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    April 8, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9781250362629

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      • ISBN: 9781250362629
      • File size: 2645 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      February 1, 2025

      Bestselling and award-winning Vo continues the story of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby from her acclaimed novel The Chosen and the Beautiful, a magical, queer reimagining of The Great Gatsby. This stand-alone companion novella will be released on the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald's original publication. With a 100K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Library Journal

      February 1, 2025

      This haunting stand-alone novella follows characters from The Chosen and the Beautiful, Vo's magical, queer reimagining of The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway has made a life in late-1930s New York City, working as a journalist and novelist and pretending that everything's fine. Pretending is all that Nick has done for years: he's a paper soldier created to protect one now long gone, slipping into Prospect Park like many other men in the city, haunted by what happened in 1922. When a chance escape from a volatile situation brings an encounter from the past, Nick realizes that the past is not done with him. Paper is a good medium for memories, and Jay Gatsby, dead and damned, has returned. Vo's prose is magical and visceral during Nick's search for the truth, and readers learn more about the past Nick has had to absorb but not live. VERDICT Vo once again vividly brings to life the world of Jazz Age New York City, intertwined with magic, devils, and ghosts of the past.--Kristi Chadwick

      Copyright 2025 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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