Hi, everyone this Ms. Belle’s first podcast on queer YA books. Today, we are going to focus on two books: Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera and If You Could Be Mine, by Sara Farizan. Note these book talks will be broken down into two separate podcasts. You can choose which to listen to based on these brief descriptions.

Queer YA Book Introductions

This first segment is on Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera. Gabby Rivera explains the book is loosely based on her own coming of age story. Rivera is Juliet - the chubby Puertorriqueña lesbiana from the Bronx.

The interview with GayWrites mentioned can be found at this web address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tXYCcj5kHg

"Juliet Takes a Breath" Book Talk

This is the second segment of my first queer YA podcast. We will discuss the novel "If You Could Be Mine" by Sara Farizan. Farizan is a queer Iranian-U.S. American.

"If You Could Be Mine" Book Talk

Next time, we will discuss "Chulito" by Charles Rice-Gonzalez and "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz.

Belle Espinal