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Olga dies dreaming
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First edition.
"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 Maraia. 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 neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1%, 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-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 againstthe 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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- 30 of 38 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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2 current holds with 38 total copies.View other formats and editions
| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Bedford Free Library | FIC GON (Text) Fiction |
31002150873783 |
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| Bedford Hills Free Library | GONZALEZ (Text) Trade Paperback |
31003151496095 |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION GONZALEZ (Text) Fiction |
31036151002489 |
Checked out 04/26/2024 |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION GONZALEZ (Text) Fiction |
31005500435369 |
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| Croton Free Library | FICTION/GONZALEZ (Text) Fiction |
31006151851227 |
Checked out 05/09/2024 |
| Eastchester Public Library | FICTION GONZALEZ (Text) Fiction |
31008152560708 |
Checked out 04/29/2024 |
| Greenburgh Public Library | FICTION GONZALEZ (Text) Fiction |
31009154737989 |
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| Harrison Public Library | GONZALEZ, X. (Text) Fiction |
31010300273374 |
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| Harrison West Harrison Branch Library | GONZALEZ, X. (Text) Fiction |
31010400127611 |
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| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | FICTION GONZALEZ (Text) New Book |
31011151448487 |
Checked out 04/24/2024 |
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