Saturday Breakfast Book Club: "Olga Dies Dreaming"

Join us for our Saturday Breakfast Book Club! Each month, we'll read one of the novels & memoirs the New York Times designates as its "Most Notable Books" from the preceding year while enjoying coffee and refreshments.

Our September 30th selection will be the acclaimed debut novel Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Twenty-seven years ago, their 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 Hurricane Maria's devastating effect on Puerto Rico, 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.

Copies of the book will be made available at the library's Circulation Desk. Please sign up below to participate in this month's discussion!