Last Night in Brooklyn

book by Xochitl Gonzalez

Themes: New York, class, belonging, secrets, history, place

Release date: 01-07-2026

Reading status: Read

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Everybody in Brooklyn—our kind of Brooklyn—believed in a fair fucking fight.

Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

Everybody in Brooklyn—our kind of Brooklyn—believed in a fair fucking fight. But this, we all knew, had been dirty pool.

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