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In a new country, growing up happens faster than you expect. Pepe is a teenage boy trying to find his footing in a world that feels louder, sharper, and more tempting than anything he left behind. At home, his mother-Mami-holds the family together with fierce love and relentless sacrifice. Outside, a first love begins to pull Pepe toward a future he does not yet understand. Then the pressure begins. Friends who promise belonging. Choices that seem harmless until they are not. The desire to be accepted. The fear of disappointing the one person who has carried everything for him. Caught between his mother's protection and his first experience of love, Pepe discovers that loyalty is not a simple word. It is a decision-sometimes quiet, sometimes painful-that shapes who you become. PEPE is a powerful coming-of-age novel about family, identity, sacrifice, and the emotional cost of growing up between two worlds.

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Antonio Garrido Caballero is a Canadian author based in Whitby, Ontario. For more than a decade, he has been writing stories that explore identity, family, coherence, and the quiet turning points that shape a life. His work spans fiction and reflective non-fiction, including The Sylvatica Principle and The Space Between Thoughts. In PEPE, he returns to his most intimate terrain: the emotional landscape of adolescence, loyalty, first love, and the immigrant experience.

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