Gabby Rivera’s YA novel follows Juliet Palante, a Puerto Rican teenager through the Bronx, that is reckoning with her feminism and queerness. After being released to her household, she would go to Portland to be always a summer time intern on her behalf favorite feminist author, Harlowe Brisbane. Juliet thinks this will be summer time that responses most of her questions and shows her just how to navigate life.

Juliet has a breathing enables Juliet to understand, be free, and resist all in the exact same time. When I read Juliet’s letter to Harlowe, filled with curse words and jokes together with term pussy, I knew I’d have time that is great down whom Juliet is, and who she’d be.

Gabby Rivera is just a queer, Puerto Rican journalist through the Bronx. Read more →