Teen • Sonora Reyes: The Golden Boys Guide to Being Bipolar

Join National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Sonora Reyes for a pre-release of The Golden Boys Guide to Bipolar, their new companion novel to the multi-award-winning The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School. They will be joined by fellow author, Jonny Garza Villa.ABOUT THE BOOK

From bestselling author Sonora Reyes comes a poignant and searingly honest companion novel to the multi-award-winning The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, following beloved character Cesar Flores as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis, and more mistakes than he can count.

Seventeen-year-old Cesar Flores is finally ready to win back his ex-boyfriend. Since breaking up with Jamal in a last-ditch effort to stay in the closet, he’s come out to Mami, his sister, Yami, and their friends, taken his meds faithfully, and gotten his therapist’s blessing to reunite with Jamal.

Everything would be perfect if it weren’t for The Thoughts—the ones that won’t let all his Catholic guilt and internalizations stay buried where he wants them. The louder they become, the more Cesar is once again convinced that he doesn't deserve someone like Jamal—or anyone really.

Cesar can hide a fair amount of shame behind jokes and his “gifted” reputation, but when a manic episode makes his inner turmoil impossible to hide, he’s faced with a stark choice: burn every bridge he has left or, worse—ask for help. But is the mortifying vulnerability of being loved by the people he’s hurt the most a risk he’s willing to take?

ABOUT THE AUTHORBorn and raised in Arizona, Sonora Reyes is the author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School and The Luis Ortega Survival Club. They write fiction full of queer and Latinx characters in a variety of genres, with current projects in both kidlit and adult categories. Sonora is also the creator and host of the Twitter chat #QPOCChat, a monthly community-building chat for queer writers of color.Sonora currently lives in Arizona in a multi-generational family home with a small pack of dogs who run the place. Outside of writing, Sonora loves dancing, singing karaoke, and playing with their baby nephew.ABOUT THE MODERATORJonny Garza Villa is a product of the Great State of Texas, a Sagittarius sun, Capricorn everything else, and an award-winning author of contemporary young adult and new adult stories inspired by their own Tejane, Chicane, and queer identities including Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun, Ander & Santi Were Here, Canto Contigo, Futbolista and the forthcoming This Is How We Roll.

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