![]() ![]() ![]() Gomez writes about his high school days with the same flowing prose and hard-won courage. To pass the time, Gomez would gulp black coffee and watch Jennifer Lopez movies all night, then drag himself to school where he dozed off "dreaming about having a boyfriend." Once relocated back in his Orlando homeland, teenaged Gomez prided himself in cloaking his burgeoning gayness beneath the "weird" label, or humorously calling himself "hetero-adjacent. In his outstanding new coming-of-age memoir, Florida-born queer Latinx author Edgar Gomez navigates a modest 13-year-old adolescence dominated by poverty and cultural machismo, as evidenced in the opening pages where he witnesses a crowded cockfighting ring orchestrated by his uncle.īut these scenes are balanced by other more introspective ones where, after a night of underaged drinking, he encounters and converses with a rowdy group of transgender sex workers from the balcony of his uncle's house in Nicaragua. ![]()
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