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Book Cover for The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Get Lit

The Chosen and the Beautiful

2025-09-09 19:00:00 2025-09-09 20:30:00 America/Chicago Get Lit Join us for a book discussion of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Adventurous Brewing -

Tuesday, September 09
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-09-09 19:00:00 2025-09-09 20:30:00 America/Chicago Get Lit Join us for a book discussion of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Adventurous Brewing -

Join us for a book discussion of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Jordan 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 paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just needs to learn how. The Chosen and the Beautiful, reinvents a classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, glittering excess and where the new gods are ready to devour the old.

Get Lit is a book discussion group for those adventurous souls who would like to read a little something different. A limited number of books are available at the Information Desk on a first come basis.

Get Lit meets outside the library at Adventurous Brewing in Bettendorf. Please note Adventurous Brewing is a 21 and older location. 

Can't make the meeting? Join us online in our Goodreads group Get Lit - Bettendorf Public Library or drop by our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/bplgetlit/. For more information email jgillette@bettendorf.org.

Get Lit is sponsored by The Friends of the Bettendorf Public Library. 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Global Gathering | Book Discussion |

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Venue details


Adventurous Brewing
1040 State St
Bettendorf, IA 52722-4856