Something In-Between by Sofia Lourdette Santamaria-Micher
After a protest at City Hall goes wrong, Luna, a Mexican-American high school senior, is saved from being pushed into traffic by a boy named Briar. Sparks fly, bad humor is exchanged, and something about a zombie… But more than sparks ignite when she realizes Briar is the son of the racist, white-supremacist candidate for mayor. Briar’s father is against her and her people and she despises his father with every ounce of her saucy Latina blood.
The last thing Luna needs is a tumultuous romance. She’s already juggling the emotional warfare of her parents’ divorce and the painful confusion of being biracial in a world bent on forcing her into one box or another. Yet Briar has brought both new laughter and hope into her life. She doesn’t believe in love, but she does believe in going against the current. And maybe–just maybe–she’s willing to try.
But playing with fire always burns.
Caught between love and hate, marriage and divorce, Mexican and American, Luna struggles to understand who she is when the love in her life is distorted. Will hate decide who she is and who she loves?
SOMETHING IN-BETWEEN is a YA novel about questioning one’s identity during adolescence and being in love despite having everything against you. Told through both humorous and defiant narrations, and a collection of honest poems, SOMETHING IN-BETWEEN is THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR meets ROMEO & JULIET. The manuscript is complete at around 45,800 words.
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