Melissa Mogoll\u00f3n is the author of a new novel called\u00a0Oye<\/i>, out this spring from Hogarth. Meaning \u201clisten to me,\u201d\u00a0Oye<\/i>\u00a0is Luciana\u2019s demand to be heard. And hear her we do, in her one-sided conversation with her older sister, Mari.\u00a0Oye\u00a0<\/i>is a family drama for the ages, set in the time of Hurricane Irma, which struck Florida and much of the Southeast in 2017. The family runs from the hurricane, but long before the hurricane struck they\u2019d been running from each other and from themselves. As Oye<\/i>\u00a0unfolds, we learn the family\u2019s secrets and the sources of deep intergenerational traumas that nevertheless tie them together. Mogoll\u00f3n and I discuss all of it in a conversation about\u00a0Oye<\/i>, a book that anyone with a family\u2014which is to say everyone\u2014will relate to.\u00a0Oye\u00a0<\/i>is Mogoll\u00f3n\u2019s debut novel. Don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n
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