VIOLETA by Isabel Allende | Historical Fiction | His story is a scintillating, beautiful reminder of the importance of leaving space for joy.ģ.
IN INVISIBLE EMMIE THE AUTHOR USES DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES PROFESSIONAL
With vulnerability, humor, and quick-witted insights into racial, sexual, familial, and professional power dynamics, Gomez shares a hard-won path to taking pride in the parts of himself he was taught to keep hidden. Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor’s office where he was diagnosed a “high-risk homosexual.” Gomez’s witty memoir follows a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing his gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo-from his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.-and the bath houses, night clubs, and drag queens who helped him redefine pride.Ī debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history, Xochitl Gonzalez’s Olga Dies Dreaming 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. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives. 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. until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1 percent but she can’t seem to find her own. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s power brokers.ĭespite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York.
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 Maria
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