Cleyvis Natera

Tuesday, April 28 at 7PM

Scott County Library – Prior Lake

16210 Eagle Creek Ave SE, Prior Lake

In-Person Event

Cleyvis Natera is a Dominican-American novelist and a poignant chronicler of the modern immigrant experience. Her award-winning literary debut, Neruda on the Park (2023), follows a grassroots push to stop gentrification in a predominantly Dominican neighborhood of New York City. Community organizer Eusebia’s campaign is made more complicated when her daughter, Luz, becomes romantically involved with a handsome developer at the company her family so vehemently opposes. Neruda on the Park earned Natera an International Latino Book Award and was selected by Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai for her Literati Book Club. Themes of home, identify, immigration, and inequality also feature heavily in Natera’s literary follow up. The Grand Paloma Resort (2025) is a thriller set at a tony Dominican resort for the ultra-rich. National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela praises: “The Grand Paloma Resort is a literary ‘The White Lotus.’ … Natera has written a sexy, sinister, and intricate tale that serves as an indictment of the ‘haves’ at the expense of the ‘have-nots’.”