Book Review: ‘Our Last Days In Barcelona: A Novel’ By Chanel Cleeton

Author Chanel Cleeton returns to her Perez family series, this time with a two-fold story set in 1964 and 1936, that shaped the family for years to come. It’s another engrossing novel about the family, with plenty of personal and politcal situations that keep you reading along. Beatriz Perez is working in Barclona at the U.S. consulate in 1964, a cover for CIA anti-Castro work. Older sister Isabel decides to go there to check up on her. While there she finds a picture in Beatriz’s apartment that is of her as a toddler with her mother and a strange man. Isabel also follows for a man who works for the CIA. In 1936 Isabel’s mother Alicia has taken her to Spain and reconnects with Nestor, a man she had a crush on years before. We soon learn how both women’s life intersect from the past in 1936 to 1964 and they each have to make decisions that could change everything. Another satisfying novel from Cleeton.

You can pick up Our Last Days In Barcelona in stores on Tuesday, May 24th from Berkley.