“It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. To sign up please call the Council on Aging at 50 or email month’s selection is: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl GonzalezĪvailable to download on Libby as an eBook or audiobook. The Frothingham Hall Book Club meets every month on the 2nd Thursday at 2:00 p.m. I currently live back in Brooklyn with my dog Hectah Lavoe.Find your next great read and some lively conversation with the Frothingham Hall Book Club! Copies of each selection are available at the Circulation Desk approximately one month before the meeting. Before writing I worked as an entrepreneur, consultant, wedding planner, fund-raiser, tarot reader and writer of etiquette columns. I completed my MFA in May of 2021 at the tender age of 43. I attended The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and then was accepted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop where I was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Prize for Fiction. Nearly twenty years later, on the eve of my 40th birthday, I decided to listen to the long whispered dream of writing. in Fine Art and Art History at Brown University in 1999. Murrow high school before getting my B.A.

A proud graduate of the New York City public school system, I studied performing arts at Edward R. Before writing I worked as an entrepreneur, consultant, wedding planner, fund-rais I'm a native of Brooklyn, New York, where I was raised by my maternal grandparents in South Brooklyn.

I'm a native of Brooklyn, New York, where I was raised by my maternal grandparents in South Brooklyn.

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González