Alliance magazine 257d ago

Someone’s Gotta Give is Alisha Fernandez Miranda’s debut fiction novel. Lucia Barrow, a Venezuelan American arts fundraiser, is thriving in Austin, Texas. But when she marries a British man named Ollie, she relocates to London to start a family. Restless and craving more, Lucia joins a global bank’s philanthropy unit, stepping into a surreal world of wealth, privilege, serving high net worth clients and catering, somewhat incredulously, to their whims. Alisha discusses the inspirations behind the book in a one-off podcast with Elaine Stabler, Magazine editor at Alliance magazine, and Josiane Smith, philanthropy advisor and learning designer, who reviewed the book in our September 2025 issue.