
Olga Dies Dreaming
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Almarie Guerra
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Inés del Castillo
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Armando Riesco
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By:
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Xochitl Gonzalez
About this listen
"All three narrators are Puerto-Rican born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." (The Washington Post)
“The narrators’ accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerra’s luscious voice conveys Olga’s transformation from fighter to a compassionate woman as she overcomes dualities and finds wholeness within herself.”–BookPage
A blazing new talent debuts with the story of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her absent mother, her glittering career amongst New York’s elite, and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
It’s 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo” are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s powerbrokers.
Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one percent, but she can’t seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets....
Twenty-seven years ago, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord-turned-radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.
Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history, Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the very notion of the American dream—all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.
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Critic reviews
Indie Next Selection for January 2022
Book of the Month Club Selection
“The audiobook is read by three Puerto Rican-born narrators Almarie Guerra, Inés del Castillo, and Armando Riesco, who showcase PR accents and code-switching dynamics to heighten the authenticity and storytelling experience of the book.”—HipLatina
"A fantastically engaging story...Rarely does a novel, particularly a debut novel, contend so powerfully and so delightfully with such a vast web of personal, cultural, political and even international imperatives." —The Washington Post
“Hilarious… A sprawling dramedy of love, politics, blackmail and real estate featuring a Puerto Rican family in Brooklyn." —People
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The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers - not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed into a ceiba tree, leaving them with more questions than answers.
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Magical Realism Weirdness
- By @abagoflit on 09-08-21
By: Zoraida Córdova
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The Taste of Sugar
- By: Marisel Vera
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.
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Loved it!
- By Ebitimi Igbaseimokumo on 01-30-23
By: Marisel Vera
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Olga Muere Soñando [Olga Dies Dreaming]
- By: Xochitl Gonzales
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Armando Riesco, Jenyvette Vega
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Es el año 2017 y Olga y su hermano, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, tienen un renombre audaz en su ciudad natal de Nueva York. Prieto es un congresista popular que representa a su vecindario Latinx de Brooklyn que está en vías de ser gentrificado, mientras que Olga es la organizadora de bodas más destacada de los poderosos de Manhattan.
By: Xochitl Gonzales
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Badass Bonita
- Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera
- By: Kim Guerra
- Narrated by: Kim Guerra
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Almost every Latina has heard the phrase calladita te ves más bonita—you look most beautiful when you are silent. It's a message rooted in machismo passed from generation to generation, and one that poet and Latine therapist, Kim Guerra, grew up on. In Badass Bonita, Guerra tells a story of coming into her own power, and guides listeners through the process of finding their own. Rejecting what she was taught as a girl, she learned to use her voice and the more she listened to that inner niña, the more she unearthed her inner guerrera.
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I loved it!
- By Irene on 04-30-25
By: Kim Guerra
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When We Make It
- By: Elisabet Velasquez
- Narrated by: Elisabet Velasquez
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican question asker who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister, Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has long been denied.
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Thank you!
- By Yasmine Rodriguez on 04-09-25
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Oye
- A Novel
- By: Melissa Mogollon
- Narrated by: Elena Rey
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Luciana is the baby of her large Colombian American family. And despite usually being relegated to the sidelines, she now finds herself the voice of reason in the middle of their unexpected crisis. Her older sister, Mari, is away at college and reduced to a mere listening ear on the other end of their many phone calls, so when South Florida residents are ordered to evacuate before a hurricane, it’s up to Luciana to deal with her eccentric grandmother, Abue, who’s refusing to leave. But the storm isn’t the only danger.
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Family
- By Vicki L. Wright on 08-31-24
By: Melissa Mogollon
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Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
- By: Crystal Maldonado
- Narrated by: Carla Vega
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia.
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Loved it.
- By Amazon Customer on 05-31-21
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Ordinary Girls
- A Memoir
- By: Jaquira Diaz
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Diaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was surrounded by the love of her friends; as she longed for a family and home, she found instead a life upended by violence. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, Ordinary Girls vibrates with music and lyricism.
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Compelling Story That We Don’t Get Enough Of
- By Leah T. on 06-09-20
By: Jaquira Diaz
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The Witches of El Paso
- A Novel
- By: Luis Jaramillo
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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In the present day, Nena’s grandniece, Marta, balances a struggling legal aid practice with motherhood and the care of the now ninety-three-year-old Nena. When Marta agrees to help search for a daughter Nena left in the past, the two forge a fierce connection. Marta’s own supernatural powers emerge, awakening her to new possibilities that threaten the life she has constructed.
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The beautiful woman of this world never cece to amaze me!
- By Anonymous User on 04-03-25
By: Luis Jaramillo
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Tías and Primas
- On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us
- By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Josie Del Castillo - illustrator
- Narrated by: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tías and primas fundamentally shaped her view of the world—and so did the labels that were used to talk about them. The tía loca who is shunned for defying gender roles. The pretty prima put on a pedestal for her European features. The matriarch who is the core of her community but hides all her pain.
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A little of all of Us.
- By Alondra on 04-27-25
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, and others
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Black Buck
- By: Mateo Askaripour
- Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor.
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A struggle to finish
- By jessica+josiah on 03-05-21
By: Mateo Askaripour
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Crying in the Bathroom
- A Memoir
- By: Erika L. Sánchez
- Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.
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I cried
- By Veronica Castellanos on 08-13-23
By: Erika L. Sánchez
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Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed
- 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
- By: Saraciea J. Fennell - editor
- Narrated by: Avi Roque, Elizabeth Acevedo, Frankie Corzo, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These fifteen original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, to addiction and grief, to identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth. Full of both sorrow and joy, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is an essential celebration of this rich and diverse community.
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Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is a treasure trove of essays and poems.
- By AuthorAnnaBella on 04-04-22
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- julia marquez
- 02-08-22
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great book about PR, NYC and it's politics. I would highly recommend this book. Olga pa late
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- Kindle Customer G
- 09-11-22
a fascinating story
though I doubted at the opening that I would enjoy this book. I was happy to have finished reading it.
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- Loida Reyes
- 05-22-22
Que Orgullo
This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Thank you for narrating the historical account of our Islands people !!!
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- Lucy Cahuantzi
- 02-12-22
Just wow!
I laughed, I cried…I‘ve been thinking about Olga all day! I wonder what her life will be like with Mateo. I freaking loved this novel. I recommend, the ending left me hungry for more!
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- Iris Miranda
- 07-07-22
I learned so much
I loved this book, the author educated me on Puerto Rico's history and culture. Her love of music and listed songs she introduces throughout led me to feel like I was so familiar with her. Abuelas love for Olga and Prieto was amazing and so relatable. I listened to this book the weekend I scattered my mama's ashes. Saring this book on the road with my daughter we cried, laughed, and felt we could totally understand Olga's abuelas role in her life. Abuelas are so important - thank you Xochitl
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- Tabatha Schmitt
- 06-30-22
Eye opening
There are many take aways from this book. You can focus on keeping toxic people away from you no matter what their rank in your life is. Or how it is always better to be true to yourself... and so many other self help examples to identify with. But the highlight of Puerto Rico’s history was my favorite. I had so many PR friends and never knew their struggle .
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- Gloria C.
- 07-23-22
all emotions
I recognized characters as real and flawed and wonderful as my friends and
family
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- Nathalie Molina
- 12-16-22
Stunning Ride
This is such a beautiful and powerful story, take the ride, you wont regret it!
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- DeAndre Calhoun
- 12-07-22
Good book
The first time you were able to see a person with the right mindset was in a relationship with someone you knew who had been dating before
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- Dr. Cris Del Rio
- 12-30-22
Best
One of the best books I've read in the past years Avoid stereotypical characters and it has a universal meaning that applies to most people regardless of their ethnic background
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