{"product_id":"olga-dies-dreaming-9781432893910","title":"Olga Dies Dreaming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots-, all\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ein the wake of Hurricane Maria\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite 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... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Xochitl Gonzalez's \u003ci\u003eOlga Dies Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eXochitl Gonzalez\u003c\/b\u003e received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and the recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship for Fiction. 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. \u003ci\u003eOlga Dies Dreaming \u003c\/i\u003eis her debut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thorndike Press Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50450303779090,"sku":"9781432893910","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_02da1086-3945-4a4d-a0f7-9f5f51008be6.jpg?v=1745354719","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/olga-dies-dreaming-9781432893910","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}