Xochitl Gonzalez and the Art of Traversing Worlds

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

News, Documentary, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Brooklyn-based author Xochitl Gonzalez shares how her parents’ militant activism for the independence of Puerto Rico and her background as a wedding planner planted the seed for her debut novel, Olga Dies Dreaming.

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0:45.0	I thought I would write a memoir about having activist parents.
0:55.0	And then I decided, no, I'm going to start fiction writing.
1:05.0	And I was like, you know what?
1:07.0	I think that my background of wedding planning
1:10.0	would be the perfect Trojan horse to make people care about Puerto Rico.
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1:23.0	Today, author Sochil Gonzales,
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