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For our second month of book-clubbing, we will be reading Xochitl Gonzalez's second novel. The titular character is a Cuban-American conceptual artist who has been forgotten in the decade since her death.left off, at least thematically, exploring power and the double-edged sword of wealth and fame.
The titular character is a Cuban-American conceptual artist who has been forgotten in the decade since her death. Raquel, a working-class Puerto Rican student at Brown in the late 1990s, switches her thesis topic when she learns about de Monte, and as Raquel progresses in her research into the artist’s work—and tumultuous relationship with her husband, a white male artist—Raquel’s own relationships with the male, white, and powerful people in her life begin to shift.
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