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In her senior year, Estela just wants to keep her head down, eke\u00a0out a passing grade from her racist Spanish teacher, and get into her dream college. But after placing second in the Latin\u00e9 Heritage Poetry Contest behind a non-Latino student, Estela is thrust into citywide debates about merit, identity, and diversity.<\/p>\r\n<p>Things only get messier when her family is threatened with eviction. As Estela\u2019s friends organize against bigotry and her landlady increases the pressure, Estela is suffocating and finds release only in poetry and in a breathless new romance. When tensions finally reach their breaking point, Estela must find a way to undrown the community she loves\u2014and herself.<\/p>\r\n<p>In her debut novel, Ren\u00e9 Pe\u00f1a-Govea seamlessly interweaves prose and poetry to uplift the power of language, the courage to fight injustice, and the complex beauty of finding your people.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her raw and resonant debut novel, Ren\u00e9 Pe\u00f1a-Govea seamlessly interweaves prose and poetry to uplift the power of language, the courage to fight injustice, and the complex beauty of finding your people\u2014perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo\u2019s\u00a0The Poet X\u00a0and Carolina Ixta\u2019s\u00a0Shut Up, This is Serious.\u00a0 Estela Morales is one of the only Latinas who [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":[296],"featured_media":3829,"parent":3667,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"content_book_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[217,132,109,130,120,82,88,91,101],"rights_available":[122,123,124],"literary_agent":[298],"publication_year":[294],"class_list":["post-3669","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-young-adult","tag-activism","tag-coming-of-age","tag-contemporary","tag-diverse","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-realistic","tag-romance","tag-social-justice","rights_available-dramatic","rights_available-translation","rights_available-uk","author-rene-pene-govea","literary_agent-sandra-proudman","publication_year-294"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3669\/revisions\/4068"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"rights_available","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rights_available?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"literary_agent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_agent?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"publication_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_year?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}