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MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2026 by Publishers Weekly, People, TIME, USA Today, Oprah Daily, BritishVogue, Audible, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Square Review, Literary Hub, She Reads, PureWow, The Story Exchange, Book Riot, Apple Books, Nerd Daily, Town&Country, Goodreads, Tatler, The Everymom, Electric Literature, Library Journal, and more!
Early Praise for Last Night in Brooklyn
“Exploring potential, obligation, and living out your wildest dreams, this is literary fiction at its most evocative.”
—Harper’s Bazaar
“As the old saying goes, money can only get you so far.”
—People
“One of our sharpest chroniclers of ambition, class, and the hidden costs of ‘making it.’… a glittering time capsule of pre-recession Brooklyn—right before the bill comes due.”
—Oprah Daily
“Gonzalez invokes the creative ferment in Fort Greene during the run-up to Barack Obama’s election… the end of an era as bankers move in like sharks.”
—TIME
“A fantastic meditation on a very particular moment in Brooklyn history.”
—Book Riot
“Gonzalez really knows how to render time and place… a story about being a person who knows people in a way that feels valuable.”
—LitHub
“This novel challenges the life that money can buy and the compromises of fiscal assimilation for people of color chasing the ‘American Dream.’”
—Electric Literature