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Podcast: Gauntlet Calendar
Episode: GRC: The Chosen and The Beautiful Discussion (spoilers)
Description: Spoilers for The Chosen and The Beautiful in this video!!!
For this segment of the Gauntlet Reading Club, the group discusses Nghi Vo's The Chosen and The Beautiful, a fantastic retelling of The Great Gatsby. The Group discusses the book's relationship to the original work and the ways in which Vo expands upon Fitzgerald's original premise to engage more directly with contemporary questions of race and transantlantic adoption while remaining true to the original's themes of class and doomed love. The latter part of the discussion focuses on adapting the book to a roleplaying game, considering what games that might...