{"product_id":"last-night-in-brooklyn-a-novel","title":"Last Night in Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"158\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"156\"\u003eSpring, 2007\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"547\"\u003eAt twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels trapped by the future everyone expects for her. She’s in a long-distance relationship, living under her mother’s watchful beliefs, and saving for a wedding to a future doctor. But one night in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Alicia glimpses another world: a vibrant, creative crowd full of energy, risk, and possibility—and she can’t resist moving in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"876\"\u003eNo one captures the spirit of this neighborhood better than La Garza, an audacious, rising fashion designer whose legendary house parties fuel local lore. From her apartment across the street, Alicia watches a life of fearlessness and excess she has never dared to imagine for herself—and begins to wonder what she’s missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"878\" data-end=\"1073\"\u003eWhen her wealthy banker cousin also moves to the neighborhood, Alicia finds herself pulled deeper into both his and La Garza’s precarious worlds, where ambition, desire, and danger intermingle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1442\"\u003eSet against the backdrop of a potentially historic presidential election and a looming, once-in-a-generation financial crisis, Last Night in Brooklyn explores the compromises of the American Dream for people of color living unknowingly on the edge of a cultural moment. It is a story of all the things money can buy—and of the destruction of everything it cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Offline Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471423979572,"sku":"9781250372031","price":500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/7388\/6004\/files\/9781250372031.jpg?v=1770156281","url":"https:\/\/offlinebooks.com\/products\/last-night-in-brooklyn-a-novel","provider":"Offline Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}