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Pool House

By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Narrated by: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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From acclaimed poet and author Melissa Lozada-Oliva comes an evocative coming-of-age story of infatuation, belonging, and trust built and broken.

We meet our narrator hanging around the nail salon where her mother works, eavesdropping on her conversation with one of the regulars, Helen. But she’s really hoping to see Helen’s daughter, Patty - older, rebellious, and completely captivating. When Helen invites her over to their house to help organize a home office, she jumps at the opportunity. But as the day goes on, she encounters something she shouldn’t and gets caught up in the sinister nature of other people’s property and private lives.

Pool House is a haunting story about losing one’s sense of self and what happens when you look too far without noticing you’re being looked upon.

©2020 Melissa Lozada-Oliva (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC. Genre Fiction Latino & Hispanic Creators Literary Fiction Short Stories
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About the Creator and Performer

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the author Dreaming of You (Astra Publishing House 2021). She lives in New York.

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45 minutes I’ll never get back. There was no plot, nothing was resolved . What was the story?

Terrible

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So I'm not really sure what the resolution should be for this story but it seems unfinished.

More?

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Melissa Lozada-Oliva is an amazing poet & I loved the way she narrated this. It almost felt like a rough draft of a psychological horror thriller. I liked it a lot, but I found myself not really *getting* it. I don’t think there should be or could be any definitive answers—that’s what makes books like this so good—but I feel like there wasn’t enough here to make any kind of theories or even to make something of it. It’s good for a quick read, but it just needs *more.*

Good for a quick read

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And then it just stopped. Not sure why the author just stopped - seemed like it ought to go further, so while it was good as far as it went, it felt like it was missing a last chapger.

Felt like the story was going somewhere

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An exploration of coming of age and the othering that is gift-wrapped tightly to the white liberal imagining of charity (instead of equity). Nightmarish imagery twists genre in this teenage vignette of culture clash, solitude, and respectability

Haunting, dreamlike

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