Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
Literary Fiction / Contemporary Fiction
Olga Dies Dreaming
by Xochitl Gonzalez
—· 384 p· 2022
reflective
Overview
About
"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 Mari a. 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,…
Pages
384
Thorndike Press Large Print
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Political Commentary9
Family Drama9
Prose8
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Pacing7
Worldbuilding6
Plot twists6
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