1–What is the title of your latest release? WHERE WE END & BEGIN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Where We End & Begin is about Dunni and Obinna, who meet and fall in love as teenagers. But they’re separated when Dunni goes to America for college. Twelve years later, Dunni goes back to Nigeria for a friend’s wedding and sees Obinna again. As they reconnect, secrets from the past come to the surface. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? As a Nigerian, most of the stories I think of automatically take place in Nigeria. I really enjoy describing Nigerian settings and bringing that to readers who may never visit Nigeria. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes, I would hang out with one of my protagonists, Dunni. But it would be the teenage version of her, whom I loved writing. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Teenage Dunni is fearless, honest, and funny. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Things aren’t always what they seem. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I do a little of…

A note from Adriana: I love that I get to finish the Dreamers series with a strong Dominican woman at the center of the story. Of all the characters, Priscilla is the one closest to me and the hardest to write. One of the things that I’ve tried to do with these Dreamers is to have nuanced conversations about the realities of immigrant lives, but without extracting the joys of who we are. Women of Color in fiction sometimes get cheated out of softness, and because we have so much to prove. The paths that we take to follow our dreams sometimes are so riddled with obstacles, we are not allowed to be. And then it can be hard to look for our own soft landing. Priscilla fights hard to stay in control. To feel self-sufficient until little by little Juanpa shows her that she can lean on him without losing herself because he’s done the work of becoming strong enough to be that for a woman like her. I love their story, and I’m so proud that it’s with these two that we say farewell to these Dreamers.   *** Priscilla The smiles and whoops of joy were already…