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Dreaming of You
Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse | Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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A macabre love story in verse about celebrity, loss, and longing following a poet who resurrects pop star Selena from the dead. Absurd, lyrical, and heartfelt, Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is a genre-bending novel in verse that examines questions of death, love, celebrity, and queer identity. Melissa, a young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache, brings Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The séance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek chorus of gossiping spirits as Melissa journeys through a dead celebrity prom, encounters her shadow self, and performs karaoke in hell. An eerie, sometimes gruesome, yet moving love story, and an interrogation of Latinidad, womanhood, obsession, and disillusionment, Dreaming of You grapples with the cost of being seen for your truest self.
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Dunno why I was drawn to a story about an obsessed fan bringing Selena back from the dead, but here we are, and it was as weird as #booked23 could have asked for. I connected more with the poems where the narrator is a young person in the city trying to find romance and create art more than what happens after the undead celebs start appearing, which is odd since eldritch boyfriends that eat your cat would objectively seem to be more my thing.

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Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse | Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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Looking forward to this #NovelInVerse ! #poetry

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