EAN: 9781250853356

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · WINNER OF THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE . INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD FINALIST A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions absent mother and Puerto Rican roots-all in the wake of Hurricane Maria NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Washington Post TIME NPR Vogue Esquire Book Riot Goodreads EW Reader's Digest and more! Don't underestimate this new novelist. She's jump-starting the year with a smart romantic comedy that lures us in with laughter and keeps us hooked with a fantastically engaging story. -The Washington Post It's 2017 and Olga and her brother Pedro Prieto Acevedo are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony 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 1 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. Olga and Prieto's mother Blanca a Young Lord turned radical 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 barreling 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 Xochitl Gonzalez's 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.

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