Olga Dies Dreaming - Couverture rigide

Gonzalez, Xochitl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349726671 ISBN 13 : 9780349726670

Editeur : Fleet, 2022

Synopsis

A blazing new talent debuts with the story of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her absent mother, her glittering career among New York's elite and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Xochitl Gonzalez received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Prior to writing, Xochitl wore many hats, including entrepreneur, wedding planner, fundraiser and tarot card reader. She is a proud alumna of the New York City public school system and holds a BA in art history and visual art from Brown University. She lives in her hometown of Brooklyn with her dog, Hectah Lavoe.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Olga Dies Dreaming is the story of an imperfect family shattered by secrets, grief and abandonment, and of people who rise up, refusing to be broken. Smart, witty and driven, Gonzalez's Olga hustles, stumbles, falls and eventually finds her way. An unflinching examination of capitalism, corruption, gentrification, colonialism and their effects on marginalised people, Olga Dies Dreaming is a poignant, scalding debut' Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls

'The extraordinary accomplishment of Olga Dies Dreaming is in how a familiar-enough tale - a woman seeking love, happiness and fulfilment in the big city - slowly reveals itself to be something else altogether . . .' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

'Wisdom, tenderness and abundant humour . . . I will think about its richly drawn, deeply human characters for a very long time' Cynthia d'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest and Good Company

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

A blazing new talent debuts with the story of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her absent mother, her glittering career among New York's elite and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighbourhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers.

Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one percent, but she can't seem to find her own . . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.

Twenty-seven years ago, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord-turnedradical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barrelling back into their lives.

Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream - all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fleet
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349726671
• ISBN 13: 9780349726670
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible