Xochitl González’s new novel, Last Night in Brooklyn (Flatiron Books, 2026) is now available. Harper’s Bazaar describes the novel with enthusiasm: “Gonzalez’s latest novel brings the enclave of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to brilliant light. The author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a master at shaping distinct characters that leave an indelible impression on each other and themselves. Exploring potential, obligation, and living out your wildest dreams, this is literary fiction at its most evocative.” With Puerto Rican and Mexican roots, González taps into her Caribbean heritage in her literary work. See the book description and links to her bio below.
Description (Flatiron Books): “New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past.”
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 milieu 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.
For more information, see https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250433084/lastnightinbrooklyn/ and https://www.amazon.com/Last-Night-Brooklyn-Xochitl-Gonzalez-ebook/dp/B0F3WJLS45/ref=books_amazonstores_desktop_mfs_author_smart_catalog
See more on the author at https://www.xochitlgonzalez.com/about-bio and https://www.bookpage.com/interviews/life-is-but-an-american-dream/#ion
Xochitl González’s new novel, Last Night in Brooklyn (Flatiron Books, 2026) is now available. Harper’s Bazaar describes the novel with enthusiasm: “Gonzalez’s latest novel brings the enclave of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to brilliant light. The author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a master at shaping distinct characters that leave an indelible impression on