Catalina 9781529155341 Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024SparklingNEW YORK TIMESMagnetic IRA GLASSFierceTIME’In Garca Mrquez, 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 Catalinas 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?Catalinais 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 Garca Mrquez’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 finalistMonkey Boy