Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for What We Did to Each Other by Josuee Hernández.
September 29th
Kim’s Book Reviews and Writing Aha’s – Top 5 Reasons to Read What We Did to Each Other, TikTok
September 30th
Betwixt The Sheets – Promotional Post
October 1st
The violet west – Top 5 Reasons to Read What We Did to Each Other
October 2nd
Confessions of a YA Reader – Promotional Post
October 3rd
Boys’ Mom Reads! – Review
October 4th
The Clever Reader – Promotional Post
September 29th
kimbartosch – Top 5 Reasons to Read What We Did to Each Other
rickys_radical_reads – Promotional Post
artxsouls – Playlist, Tik Tok
September 30th
theink.slinger – Promotional Post
mrs.brasingtonreads – Review, Favorite Quotes
October 1st
therearenobadbooks – Top 5 Reasons to Read What We Did to Each Other
blackgirlbujos – Book Look, Tik Tok
October 2nd
whatageminireads – Promotional Post
lflbookadventures – Promotional Post
October 3rd
aneedleinmybookstack – Top 5 Reasons to Read What We Did to Each Other
meghenslittlelibrary – Creative Post
October 4th
thecleverreader – Promotional Post
breesbookshelf_ – Review
October 5th
enthuse_reader – Review
Genre: YA Contemporary
Publishing date: January 1, 2025
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Rep: Latine/x, Mexican
Synopsis:
It’s the early 2010s, and seventeen-year-old Yesenia Rivera hates everything about 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 . . .
Content Warning: Racism, colorism, drug use, emotional trauma, self-hate, violence
Josuee Hernandez is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. His debut YA novel, What We Did to Each Other, will be published by Flux in fall 2025. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Oregon, a Master of Arts in English Literature from Portland State University, and a Master of Arts in Education, also from Portland State University. When he’s not writing, he serves as an educator for K-12 youth.
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