New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor\u2019s secret past<\/p>\n
SPRING, 2007<\/p>\n
At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She\u2019s in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
No one embodies this milieu more than La Garza, a larger-than-life, up-and-coming fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
But when Alicia\u2019s wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza\u2019s precarious lives.<\/p>\n
Against the backdrop of a potentially life-changing presidential election and a looming once-in-a-generation fiscal crisis,\u00a0Last Night in Brooklyn\u00a0explores 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\u2014and the destruction of what it can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Xochitl Gonzalez\u00a0is the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author of the award-winning novel\u00a0Olga Dies Dreaming\u00a0and the Reese\u2019s Book Club Pick\u00a0Anita de Monte Laughs Last. She is a contributor to\u00a0The Atlantic, where she was recognized as a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Commentary. A native Brooklynite and proud public school graduate, Gonzalez holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop.<\/p>\n
Justina Machado was nominated for a Tony for her performance of \u2018Carmen Garcia\u2019 in REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES on Broadway. She is currently recurring as EVA on MATLOCK on CBS and will feature in the upcoming mockumentary THE MAKING OF JESUS DIABETES, story by Michael Naughton, Andrew Friedman and Bob Odenkirk. She starred in the Netflix series PULSE from Zoe Robyn and Carlton Cuse and the Amazon\/Blumhouse series THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH. Machado starred in the hit comedy ONE DAY AT A TIME opposite Rita Moreno and produced by the late great Norman Lear. Machado is well-known for her role as \u2018Vanessa Diaz\u2019 in HBO\u2019s SIX FEET UNDER. Machado recurred on JANE THE VIRGIN and was a series regular on QUEEN OF THE SOUTH as fan favorite \u2018Brenda Parra.\u2019 \u00a0In film, Machado starred in THE THROWBACK directed by Mario Garcia opposite Will Sasso, Lifetime\u2019s SWITCHED BEFORE BIRTH, and in Netflix\u2019s ALL TOGETHER NOW.\u00a0 Additional television credits include SUPERSTORE, GREY\u2019S ANATOMY, UGLY BETTY, ER, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, \u00a0PRIVATE PRACTICE, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, DEVIOUS MAIDS, SWITCHED AT BIRTH, THE FOSTERS, MURDER \u00a0POLICE, and Max\u2019s TUCA & BERTIE.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young woman whose life becomes ensnared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64531,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-278177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bookstore-events","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}