Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez [in Booklist]
19 Jan, by in Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Brown lives get overlooked, trampled, dismissed, and destroyed in Matt Mendez’s searing YA debut, set in his El Paso, Texas hometown. Timothy Andrés Pabon – his voice aptly mimicking a teen who’s not quite fully mature – opens in “Chapter Juan” as should-be high school...