Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Almarie Guerra
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
All three narrators are Puerto-Rican born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel. (The Washington Post), The narrators accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerras luscious voice conveys Olgas transformation from fighter to a compassionate woman as she overcomes dualities and finds wholeness within herself.BookPage, A blazing new talent debuts with the story of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her absent mother, her glittering career amongst New Yorks elite, and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria., Its 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 Manhattans powerbrokers., Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga
