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It's the early 2010s, and seventeen-year-old Yesenia Rivera hates everything about herself: her brown skin and wide nose, her curly hair and hand-me-down clothing, and her inability to fit in with either the Mexican girls or the white girls at her school. So when her mother's new job requires them to uproot their lives and move to the Pacific Northwest, Yesenia devises a plan to remake herself completely. Cloaked in skin lightening cream, blue contact lenses, dyed-blonde hair, and a ""whiter"" name, Yesenia's--aka Jessie's--newfound ability to pass as white in her new school gets her the popularity she's always dreamed of. Yet as her brazen confidence morphs into hubris, all it takes is a couple of slip-ups for someone to take notice. Guillermo Rivera--aka Willy--is no stranger to sticking out at their predominantly white high school. Bothered by how little he's able to help his low-income mother and seduced by the prospect of financial stability, he reluctantly settles into a flattened, stereotyped version of himself in exchange for being needed by his white peers. But when selling to Jessie's new friends pushes him farther out of his comfort zone and, dangerously, into theirs, both he and Jessie begin to suffer the mounting cost of what whiteness demands. The more they're forced together, the more their tenuously crafted double lives threaten to crumble.

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Josuee Hernández lives in Portland, Oregon. He studied at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, though he ultimately considers the Marine Corps his alma mater. A proud union educator, he teaches when he's not reading or writing. Find him online; just Google him. A professional working actress from the age of sixteen, Maria McCann is a classically trained, LA-based narrator with a conservatory acting degree from UCLA. She began her career playing Keanu Reeves's girlfriend in an MTV commercial and has since appeared in over forty-five films and TV shows, including Lucifer, Shameless, and Grey's Anatomy. She has recorded over 100 audiobook titles, working with publishers including Brilliance, Simon and Schuster, Podium, Dreamscape, Harper Collins, and Macmillan. Maria is a respected acting coach and teacher, with a skill for sharing complex concepts in challenging nonfiction-bringing an engaging air of expertise to topics ranging from dance (in all its forms), hiking, Alzheimer's care, and self-help. Her experience in youth arts gives her a passion and perspective for captivating YA audiences. Named for the lead character in West Side Story, Maria is proud of her Hispanic heritage and is conversational in Spanish. Her years spent in an elite writer's group (surrounded by Emmy Award-winning storytellers), and with her acclaimed novelist husband give her an affinity for capturing the author's intent and for in-depth character analysis. Maria's musical ear and love of travel have afforded her a knack with accents and dialects. She is particularly drawn to historical fiction where she can throw herself into the research necessary. She is also a fan of narrating paranormal, thrillers, women's fiction, and second-chance love, and as a proud LGBTQ+ parent, she also loves to inhabit the HEA of a scintillating sapphic romance. A lifelong animal advocate, Maria has helped to rescue furry friends from pitbulls to the real-life displaced tigers from the hit documentary Tiger King! Andre Bellido is a New York City-based audiobook narrator, actor, and musician, born in South Florida to Latin American immigrants. He attended Berklee College of Music as a music production and engineering major and moved to NYC shortly after graduating. He started out by engineering and directing audiobooks and podcasts at various recording studios in the city, while simultaneously studying acting at T. Schreiber. Andre performs in both English and Spanish, and is represented by Prestige Management for commercial acting.

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