Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel GRCF ” — School Library Journal

” — School Library Journal (starred review)

Watkins’s love letter to Black boys in concrete cities

and travels with them to Pennsylvania

Flannery O’Connor

Against a fraught political climate

Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel GRCF ” — School Library JournalNew York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isnt. By 1998 Anitas name has been all but forgottencertainly by the time Raquel, a third year art history