Last Night in Brooklyn Signed Indie Bookstore Exclusive Edition

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. This Indie
Bookstore Edition includes a distinctive cover design, an exclusive conversation between
Xochitl Gonzalez and Jacqueline Woodson, and is signed by the author.
At twenty-six, in the spring of 2007, 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 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-ageneration 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.