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Last night in Brooklyn : a novel Cover Image Large Print Book

Last night in Brooklyn : [large print] a novel / Xochitl Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977- (author.).

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Spring, 2007. At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She's in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother's beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of youth and possibility that the striving crowd of creatives holds, and moves in. No one embodies this more than La Garza, a larger-than-life, up-and-coming fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza's life, observed by Alicia from her apartment across the street, seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself. But when Alicia's wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza's precarious lives. Against the backdrop of a potentially life-changing presidential election and a looming once-in-a-generation fiscal crisis, Last Night in Brooklyn explores the dark compromise of the American Dream for people of color living, unknowingly, in the twilight of a cultural moment. It is a story about everything money can buy--and the destruction of what it can't.

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  • ISBN: 9781420534214
  • ISBN: 1420534211
  • Physical Description: 367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2026.

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"Published in 2026 by arrangement with Flatiron Books"--Title page verso.

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Long-distance relationships > Fiction.
American Dream > Fiction.
Hispanic Americans > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Social classes > Fiction.
Presidents > United States > Election > 2008.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
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