Xochitl Gonzalez, "Olga Dies Dreaming" (Flatiron Books, 2022)
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Olga Dies Dreaming
Olga just found its way onto the New York Times bestseller list and it couldn't be more deserving. Olga dies dreaming contains so much of our sprawling chaotic world while still managing to be a riotously funny novel of a single family, interconnected to people and places in ways that only art can make clear. It opens as a hilarious and knowing wedding planner sees the gross underbelly of inequality in the overindulgence of her privileged clientele story. To give us a taste of that excellent opening foray, would you read the first paragraph of the novel, subtitled The Napkins? Of course, with pleasure.
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