Juliet Takes a Breath

This book is so good it'll have you reading bits out loud as you go, just to savor the humor and wisdom and teenage intensity and immediacy. Juliet Milagros Palante, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, has got life figured out - she's about to fly out to Portland, Oregon and start an internship with an internationally acclaimed white feminist. But before she leaves, she decides to come out to her family - which goes horrifically wrong. Then her internship isn't the amazingly perfect stepping stone she imagined. So now she's got to double down and figure out how to handle what life is throwing at her.