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Dreaming of you : a novel in verse

Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is an absurd yet heartfelt examination of celebrity worship. A young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The séance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek chorus of gossiping spirits as she journeys through a dead celebrity prom, encounters her shadow self, and performs karaoke in hell. In visceral poems embodying millennial angst, paragraph-long conversations overheard at her local coffeeshop, and unhinged Twitter rants, Lozada-Oliva reveals an eerie, sometimes gruesome, yet moving love story. Playfully morbid and profoundly candid, an interrogation of Latinidad, womanhood, obsession, and disillusionment, Dreaming of You grapples with the cost of being seen for your truest self.

Book  - 2021
FIC Lozad
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  • ISBN: 9781662600593
  • Physical Description ix, 178 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
  • Edition First edition.
  • Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.

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Dreaming of You : A Novel in Verse
Dreaming of You : A Novel in Verse
by Lozada-Oliva, Melissa
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Dreaming of You : A Novel in Verse

Hello, querido reader. Do you like poetry? Maybe you like songs? Do songs get trapped in your head like a rat on sticky paper? Are you afraid of dying and does it fuel you? We aren't trying to sell you anything, but consider hanging us on your wall. Primero que todo, we love chisme. What is a meal without the seasoning of gossip? What is a conversation without a little talking-some-shit? We make eyes at each other through the trees. We clink our beers together on rooftops. We send messages later, on the car ride home. We all know the story of Selena Quintanilla. The Tejana pop star who was murdered by her best friend and the manager of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar. There are heroes. There are villains. There are fans. There are girls trying to find their reflection in a rippling pond, and then feeling startled when a piece of gum falls out of their mouth. There is a frog that thinks the gum is a fly and chokes to death. Where were we? This is a story of mirrors, or what happens when you bring the mirror back from the dead and when you look in it you see yourself eating yourself. This is about You, except when it's not about you. This is a love story. But it isn't our story. However, as chismosas, we feel that it happened to us. So we believe we are the best ones to tell it. We will try to tell it to you the best that we can. First, let's introduce our speaker, Melissa, who does not speak entirely for us. She is a girl who dreamsa lot. Excerpted from Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.