Book launch for Josuee Hernández’s debut novel What We Did To Each Other, which focuses on the lives of two first-gen Latinos growing up in the Pacific Northwest as they navigate assimilation, racism and classism in their own gendered ways. Yesenia, wanting to fit in, dyes her hair blond and dons blue contacts to pass as white at her new school. Guillermo, a classmate, is immediately suspicious of “Jessie” Rivera, the new blond girl in class. As he tugs and unravels her mystery, she realizes she’ll do anything to keep it.
Josuee Hernández teaches K-12 when he's not reading or writing. He was raised in Oregon
