Catalina Audiobook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college forced to navigate an opaque past an uncertain future tragedies on two continents and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom

A sparkling fiction debutThe New York Times Book Review
A fresh and unflinching take on the campus novelPeople Ten Best Books of the Year
Diabolically charming and magneticIra Glass

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Time The Washington Post NPR them

When Catalina is admitted to Harvard it feels like the fulfillment of destiny a miracle child escapes death in Latin America moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents and becomes one of the chosen But nothing is simple for Catalina least of all her own complicated contradictory ruthlessly probing mind Now a senior she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires She infiltrates the schools elite subculturesinternships and literary journals posh parties and secret societieswhich she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interlopers skepticism she is both fascinated and repulsed Craving a great romance Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel And every day the clock ticks closer to the abyss of life after graduation Can she save her family Can she save herself What does it mean to be saved

Brash and daring part campus novel part hagiography part pop song Catalina is unlike any comingofage novel youve ever readand Catalina bright and tragic circled by a nimbus of chaotic energy driven by a wild heart is a character you will never forget