Eva Longoria (Flamin’ Hot) has set her next project with Searchlight Pictures.

Longoria will direct an adaptation of Xochitl Gonzalez’s novel Anita de Monte Laughs Last.

The New York Times bestseller tells the story of a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.

Longoria will also produce through Hyphenate Media Group, her prodco with Cris Abrego, and with Jada Miranda.

SVP of Production Taylor Friedman and Creative Executive Daniel Yu will be overseeing Anita de Monte Laughs Last for Searchlight Pictures, reporting to Co-Heads of Production and Development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.