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Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
Monday, January 097:00pm - 8:00pm
Start the year off right with a lively book club! Our first book of the year is Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez.
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. 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, 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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