Juliet Takes a Breath

In this wonderfully funny and charming YA debut, we accompany a young queer Puerto Rican woman—Juliet—as she travels to Portland to intern for the hippy-dippy white woman who wrote her favorite book. Raging Flower is a book about feminism, women’s bodies, and queerness, and it’s clearly taught Juliet most of what she knows about both feminism and the LGBT community. She has much more to learn from her time with author Harlowe Brisbane in 1990s-era Portland, and it’s a joy to learn along with her, seeing what she chooses to take to heart and what she prefers to leave. Juliet Takes a Breath is a fresh look at the significance of intersectionality. It’s vulnerable, fun, a little weird, and totally illuminating. (14 and up) —Anika
P.S. If you’ve ever wanted to read an entire chapter dedicated to periods, you’re going to LOVE chapter eleven!