The book has won awards and has been met with attempts to have it removed from school libraries.
[3] NPR described the book as a coming-of-age story about a college student from the Bronx establishing her identity.
[7] Rivera went on to write the first-ever queer Latina super hero for Marvel.
[8][9] The main character, Juliet Milagros, is a 19-year-old Latina who has recently started identifying as a lesbian.
During this year she quietly came out to some of her peers and started dating a white girl who Juliet doesn't feel tries to really understand her.