“Friendships, family, grief, joy, rage, faith, doubt, poetry, and love—this complex and sensitive book has room for every aspect of growing up!”—Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor–Winning author of The Surrender Tree
Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it’s senior year, and suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and realizing he no longer knows himself. If Sal’s not who he thought he was, who is he?
This humor-infused, warmly humane look at universal questions of belonging is a triumph.
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“Narrator Robbie Daymond’s soft, calming tone is appropriate for the peaceful world of seventeen-year-old Sal…Daymond’s gentle tones soothe listeners just as Vincente’s tenderness calms the troubled waters through which Sal must pass. Daymond’s narration, though low-key, gives rounded portraits of all the story’s characters and doesn’t minimize Sal’s heartache or his attempts to control his temper. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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