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Catalina A Novel

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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(18 ratings)
224 pages4 editions2025Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781529155341
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About this book

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 'Sparkling' NEW YORK TIMES 'Magnetic' IRA GLASS 'Fierce' TIME 'In Garcia Marquez, people in love experienced bouts of vomiting, psychosomatic fevers and real catatonia. I wanted to make boys sick, too. This is how I wanted to be loved.' When Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at the most prestigious university in the world. She knows she has to play the part, but she also wants to have a good time in the process. And so begins her era of opulent parties, secret societies, desirable internships, flings with rich men and plenty of vodka sodas. But in her final year, undocumented immigrants become the target of political turmoil and Catalina's life back in New York begins to unravel. As the clock ticks on the precarious future of her family, what will she sacrifice to save the people she loves the most? Catalina is a daring, glamorous and sharply observed campus novel about coming into your own and the endless possibilities of freedom, love and power. 'She is a worthy student of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' The Atlantic ' A fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel' PEOPLE 'Destined to be a contemporary American classic' FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Monkey Boy

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Random House
Published
2025
Pages
224
ISBN
9781529155341
Language
en
Editions
4

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