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.
Captivating and trenchant ... With fascinating characters, rapid-fire dialogue, poignant backstories, sexy and dangerous relationships, excruciating and sardonically funny situations, sharp psychological and social insights, vibrant descriptions, abrupt shifts, showdowns, and revelations, this is an all-the-way-live novel of dreams, anguish, vengeance, and liberation.
Gonzalez is a writer whose straightforward prose downplays its subtlety and brilliance. Her characters are arresting, and she is Whartonesque when it comes to describing the folkways of a particular group of people at a particular time.
In this tale inspired by The Great Gatsby, Gonzalez once again artfully delivers insightful, nuanced commentary of place, race, and class in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn.
