Friends initially panned Xochitl Gonzalez’s new novel, ‘Anita de Monte Laughs Last,’ as too depressing. Then she had an encounter with the spirit of an overlooked Latina artist that saved the project.
Xochitl Gonzalez is telling me she met a ghost. “I don’t know if I believe in magical realism or if I believe that there’s magic in the real world,” the Brooklyn-based writer says. And yet there’s no way to talk about her new novel,, without getting serious about the supernatural.
“really resented all of my choices because she felt they were, like, cleaving us from each other,” she says, and tears start to well up in her eyes. “She wasn’t totally wrong.” With the time to hone her craft, Gonzalez won a place at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and then entered the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2019. There was no sense of deficiency this time: She arrived on campus with 200 pages ofwhile many of her friends left New York City. “My life has changed while this place is changing,” she says. She’s already at work on her third book, which she describes as an attempt to preserve the memory of the borough of her youth.
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