Juliet Takes a Breath

Juliet Takes a BreathBy: Gabby Rivera "F***ing outstanding." Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author Rivera captures both the disappointments and the possibilities that come with realizing that your lifes solution cannot be figured out by someone else.The New York Times Book Review Juliet Milagros Palante is a self proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she's not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before

She won't even let him watch a scary movie

one sits under a tree with a book while the other regales her with descriptions of a cool fort in a tree that grows ever more fantastical in the telling

Aside from that

A widower who’s had to raise his five-year-old son on his own

Is he really ready to be a big boy

kids will learn that there are many kinds of suits - including suits for swimming

But all of that changes when he meets Fast Sam

Raised in poverty

with specially-comissioned photography including a Stradivarus guitar

that long-sought destiny lies nearly within reach

She's new to ballet class and doesn't know all the moves

So - he has this brilliant idea