The Pursued and the Pursuing

F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby ends after Jay Gatsby is shot and killed for a hit and run that he did not commit as well as for his attempts to recapture the past. However while the bullets aim is still true The Pursued and the Pursuing explores what might have been had it left Gatsby with another chance at happiness. Find it he does although not in the arms of Daisy Buchanan. As Gatsby travels the world with Nick Carraway his friend and narrator he sheds wealth performance and glamor in favor of honesty intimacy and love.When Daisy writes to Nick a decade after Gatsbys brush with death her frenzied reentrance into their lives threatens to stir up old grudges and longings but the biggest surprise she brings is her daughter. At thirteen Pam Buchanan is a queer bookish girl who feels out of place as her parents try to steer her toward their standards of normalcy. Fortunately Nick and Gatsby are more than familiar with the perils of being molded by others expectations.A tale of chosen family queer love and a glitzy party or two The Pursued and the Pursuing reimagines Fitzgeralds beloved characters and celebrates those with courage to live in the present.