A review by okayalej
Dreaming of You by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

4.0

What a trip! Melissa Lozada-Oliva did something absolutely wreckless and magical with this one. She envisions a world in which she has resurrected Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla-Perez. It's dark, it gross, it's beautiful, it's sparkling, it's covered in pepperonis, and it's everything I probably dreamed of as a young kid. So many of Melissa's lines hit me right in the heart. A combination of poetry and prose, this book absolutely resounded deep within my innerchild. Some of the sentiments in the book felt long-winded, but never with out a punching stretch of lines that brought you to a place of thinking. Melissa's mind is incredible and I am ever grateful. This felt like some weird, f*cked up shared experience I had with someone I never met. But so was losing Selena. I didn't realize she was gone when I first sang Como La Flor in my backyard as it blasted from the boombox. My dad joked we could be related because we shared a last name. She had been dead a year then when my dad gave me my first Selena CD. I was informed too late to share in that grief. Yet, I share in it now. Thanks Melissa Lozada-Oliva. All I want to do is eat a pepperoni pizza with Selena.