![]() Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old cousin, Daisy Fabrega, who lives in fashionable East Egg near her wealthy fiancé, Tom-and Nick is shocked to find that his cousin now goes by Daisy Fay, has erased all signs of her Latine heritage, and now passes seamlessly as white. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future-and his life as a man-and benefit his family. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Wisconsin, has no interest in the city’s glamor. This YA reimagining of The Great Gatsby centers trans love in a cast removed from its cishet white default, finally exploring those longing glances and wistful sighs between Nick and Jay. Recommended for absolutely everyone, as even those familiar with the novel may notice something new thanks to Hope?s nuanced (and only mildly faulty) performance.In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. He also does quite well with the party guests and the gambler Meyer Wolfsheim, faltering only by making Tom Buchanan sound a bit like a gravel-voiced truck driver. He stumbles a bit at the beginning, drawing upon the revelation that narrator Nick Carraway is a Yale man by making the narration somewhat arch, but once he settles down, Hope ably conveys Carraway?s optimistic innocence. ![]() ![]() It is a book that deserves a perfect reading, and though numerous other narrators have tried?among them Robertson Dean, Anthony Heald, Alexander Scourby, and Tim Robbins?Hope may have come closest to achieving this perfection. Canadian actor William Hope reads Naxos AudioBooks? first unabridged production of Fitzgerald?s classic novel of the Roaring Twenties. ![]()
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