Short summary: Son of Trump voters falls for first generation immigrant and CHAOS ENSUES!
Long summary: Ben & Beatriz is a Latinx retelling of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing set in the early days of the Trump presidency in which a queer, biracial young woman (our girl Beatriz) must untangle her complicated relationship with the scion of a wealthy white dynasty (our boy Ben) in what becomes a complex and nuanced rumination on race, colorism, passing, class, wealth, sexuality and privilege. Now a finalist for the New England Book Award!
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Listen to a clip from the Ben and Beatriz audiobook read by James Fouhey and Aida Reluzco.
Books Featured in Ben & Beatriz
AKA books and writers I love so much I wrote them into my own
