Last Night in Brooklyn // A Novel

New York Timesbestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbors secret past, laying bare the mounting tensions at play in a rapidly gentrifying, early 2000s Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

SPRING, 2007

At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. Shes in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mothers 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 Garzas 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 Alicias wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garzas precarious lives.

Against the backdrop of a potentially life-changing presidential election and a looming once-in-a-generation fiscal crisis,Last Night in Brooklynexplores 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 buyand the destruction of what it cant.

Xochitl Gonzalez is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofAnita de Monte Laughs Last, a Reese’s Book Club Pick longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the award-winningOlga Dies Dreaming, named a Best of 2022 byThe New York Times,TIME,Kirkus, theWashington Post, andNPR. Gonzalez is a staff writer for TheAtlanticand was recognized as a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Commentary. A native Brooklynite and proud public school graduate, Gonzalez holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.

• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Publish Date: April 21, 2026
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9781250372031
• Dimensions: 234.9 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches | 0.95 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction