Last Night in Brooklyn

Gonzalez (Anita de Monte Laughs Last; Olga Dies Laughing) returns with her highly anticipated third novel. It’s the early 2000s in Brooklyn, the drinks are flowing, and the parties are magical, most of all at the home of the mysterious and charming fashion designer La Garza. Feeling trapped with her family in her South Brooklyn home, Nuyorican Alicia Forten moves to Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood to be closer to the nightlife of the alluring La Garza. The novel then jumps to 2007, before Obama’s first presidency and the financial crash, and Alicia runs into her wealthy cousin Devon in Fort Greene; she reconnects with him and his wife, Marla. Now living across the street from Alicia, La Garza asks Alicia to arrange a meeting with her cousin for a suit fitting. Alicia does so, unaware of just how loaded their past is and how devastating their reunion will end up being.