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Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xochitl Gonzalez
Narrated by: Jessica Pimentel, Jonathan Gregg, Stacy Gonzalez
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Bloomsbury presents Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez, read by Stacy Gonzalez, Jonathan Gregg and Jessica Pimentel.

THE REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024

‘I have goosebumps just talking about this story’ REESE WITHERSPOON
‘Smart, funny – and furious’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘Genre-busting ... A clear-eyed deconstruction of skewed value systems’ FINANCIAL TIMES

It’s 1985 and Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. Thirteen years later, art history student Raquel is preparing her final thesis, feeling the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities as the wealthy students around her. Anita’s name – and the mysterious circumstances around her death – has all but faded from view.

When Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older student, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. But then she stumbles upon Anita’s story, and is struck not only by the question of who gets to leave a legacy, but by how her own relationship eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist . . .

* A NEW YORK TIMES, ELLE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024 *

* AUDIE FINALIST IN THE MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE CATEGORY *

©2024 Xochitl Gonzalez (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction United States World Literature Witty Tear-jerking Student
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This is an inspired fictional interpretation of actual events. The performance is fantastic and I am glad that I listened as the voices heightened the story.

Brilliant

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I really enjoyed this book- i couldn’t predict it and enjoyed the ride. The passion of the artist Anita Del Monte played through the words and the performance was fantastic to follow and I enjoyed the evolution of Raquel as our other leading lady. It was a great story, despite the shocking and arresting events described. Not always easy in the content (domestic violence) but ultimately a great
Story.

Loved this quirky, atmospheric and revealing story

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Amazing storytelling, descriptive, so interesting to see this tale of racism and sexism and womanhood and identity set against the backdrop of the 80s and 90s art world. Made me laugh and made me cry. At times over acted by one of the readers, but even this is charming.

Gripping feminist literature

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Loved this interesting story set in the art world and told from three points of view.

Fast paced and unique

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It took me a while to get into it, but once there I loved it.

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I disliked the main character Anita, she talks about herself in the third person a lot screaming and at times screeching about his brilliant she is and it js very grating.

Probably better as a paperback

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this was a disappointment. the main character anita is clearly a traumatized woman with borderline personality disorder, whose coping strategy is to blame others for all of her problems. She focuses most of the blame on to her husband who she torments even after death. Both of the male characters are one dimensional caricatures, not believable with no depth, just cartoon villains which seem to be just a strawman to feel good about anita's revenge and raquel's later success. the thread between anita and raquel's story is the bizarre supernatural. I guess the point of this book is to feel good for women's lib and yay we stuck it to the racists! but the flakiness of the story weakens the argument

one dimensional characters

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torture to listen to, dull, no story, horrible whining characters who all hate each other. Like a gossipy, high school thing for girls. very poor writing by the author.

Awful Book, terrible writer

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