Olga Dies Dreaming

NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller ΓÇó INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD FINALIST ΓÇó A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican rootsΓÇöall in the wake of Hurricane Maria
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"DonΓÇÖt underestimate this new novelist. SheΓÇÖs jump-starting the year with a smart romantic comedy that lures us in with laughter and keeps us hooked with a fantastically engaging story." ΓÇöThe Washington Post

It''s 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro ΓÇ£PrietoΓÇ¥ 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 ManhattanΓÇÖs 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 canΓÇÖt seem to find her own. . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.
Olga and PrietoΓÇÖs 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 RicoΓÇÖs history, Xochitl GonzalezΓÇÖs Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the very notion of the American dreamΓÇöall while asking what it really means to weather a storm.