Last Night in BrooklynLast Night in Brooklyn

"Spring, 2007. At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She's in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother, saving up for her wedding. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of possibility. No one embodies this more than La Garza, whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza's life seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself. But when Alicia's wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza's precarious lives"--