What We Did to Each Other by Hernández, Josuee

What We Did to Each Other

It's the early 2010s, and seventeen-year-old Yesenia Rivera hates everything about herself: her brown skin and wide...
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Author: Josuee Hernández
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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What We Did to Each Other by Hernández, Josuee

What We Did to Each Other

$33.78

What We Did to Each Other

$33.78
Author: Josuee Hernández
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
It's the early 2010s, and seventeen-year-old Yesenia Rivera hates everything about herself: her brown skin and wide nose, her curly hair and hand-me-down clothing, and her inability to fit in with either the Mexican girls or the white girls at her school. So when her mother's new job requires them to uproot their lives and move to the Pacific Northwest, Yesenia devises a plan to remake herself completely. Cloaked in skin lightening cream, blue contact lenses, dyed-blonde hair, and a "whiter" name, Yesenia's-aka Jessie's-newfound ability to pass as white in her new school gets her the popularity she's always dreamed of. Yet as her brazen confidence morphs into hubris, all it takes is a couple of slip-ups for someone to take notice. Guillermo Rivera--aka Willy, an easier-to-pronounce nickname bestowed upon him by his classmates--is no stranger to sticking out at their predominantly white high school, right down to his too-small wrestling shoes. Bothered by how little he's able to help his low-income mother and seduced by the prospect of financial stability, he reluctantly settles into a flattened, stereotyped version of himself in exchange for being needed by his white peers. But when selling to Jessie's new friends pushes him farther out of his comfort zone and, dangerously, into theirs, both he and Jessie begin to suffer the mounting cost of what whiteness demands of them. The more they're forced together, the more their tenuously crafted double lives threaten to crumble. Until one day, when those lives collide . . .

Author: Josuee Hernández
Publisher: Flux
Published: 09/30/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.94w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781635831078
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2025
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2025

About the Author
Hernández, Josuee: - Josuee Hernández lives in Portland, Oregon. He studied at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, though he ultimately considers the Marine Corps his alma mater. A proud union educator, he teaches when he's not reading or writing. Find him online; just Google him.

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