Step Into the Magic of the Jazz Age in Nghi Vo s The Chosen and the Beautiful tor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Moon of the Snowblind, written and illustrated by Gary Kelley; Ice Cube Press (184 pages, $19.99)
The history of the Indian Wars is often told from a high-altitude perspective of skirmishes, treaties, victories and defeats. This obscures what it meant to those wrapped up in its muddled battle lines and sudden, inexplicable cruelties. In this astounding graphic historical novel about the 1857 Spirit Lake Massacre from veteran illustrator Gary Kelley, that reality is brought hauntingly to life.
In 1856, a pair of families had trekked West from New York looking for new land. They and eventually other white settlers found a seemingly perfect spot around the lakes of northwest Iowa. Kelley renders the verdant landscape in idyllic, lyric tones that reflect how the settlers saw the forest primeval as unpopulated. But following a brutal winter, the land s residents made their presence known. In March 1857, a band of the Wapekute Dakota attacked the settlers cabins, killing several and
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain) draws readers into a fantastical reimagining of the world of
The Great Gatsby. In Voâs version, magic is as regular as Jay Gatsbyâs soirees, prohibition bans covered demon blood as well as alcohol, and star golfer Jordan Baker can turn cut paper into enchantments. Jorden and Daisy Fay became friends when they were children. Now, Daisy is settled with Tom Buchanan while Jordan navigates New York Cityâs social scene as an accepted outsider, kept at armâs length for her Vietnamese heritage. When Daisy sets Jordan up with her cousin, Nick Carraway, Jordan takes little notice of him until Jay Gatsby sets his eyes on Nick as well. The unnerving Gatsby asks Jordan to put in a good word for him with Nick, Daisyâs reeling from Gatsbyâs reemergence in her life, and Jordan is developing unwelcome romantic affections of her own. Vo balances the increasingly entangled lives of Jordan and her friends with flashbacks to Jordan a