Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore (2022)
Nick is a seventeen-year-old trans boy, Daisy is passing as white, and Gatsby shares Nick’s secret.
The novel is about people remaking themselves to get into a world that would not have them. Take that literally.
You read YA, and you want the novel’s self-invention made personal.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: 1922, West Egg, East Egg, Daisy, Tom and Gatsby.
Changes: who they are: Nicolás Caraveo, a transgender boy from Wisconsin; his cousin Daisy Fabrega, who now calls herself Daisy Fay and has erased her Latine heritage; and Jay Gatsby, the neighbour with the castle-like mansion.
New York, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a seventeen-year-old transgender boy from Wisconsin, rents a house in West Egg from his cousin Daisy, who now goes by Daisy Fay and passes as white. His neighbour is Jay Gatsby. Longlisted for the National Book Award.
Whose story is it?
Nick’s and Gatsby’s, two young men with a common secret.
How much time does it ask?
336 pages in the Square Fish paperback. Longlisted for the National Book Award.
Macmillan: a YA reimagining of The Great Gatsby in the Remixed Classics series; National Book Award longlist.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into West Egg: The Scribner paperback (“The Only Authorized Edition”) · The Penguin Classics edition, introduction by Min Jin Lee · The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Alworth