A review by unboxedjack
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.

The author would’ve been better suited at writing essays about the Puerto Rican experience and intersections of identity. This attempt at a narrative was uneven, the characters were hardly engaging (they weren’t just unlikeable, but were somehow both flat and exaggerations of stereotypes of folx beholden to being model minorities in white America), and the author spent way too much time on undeveloped and epistolary exploits than anything literary. I hate not finishing books, but this was a slog I just couldn’t commit to.