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Five novels about the American West that will entertain ages nine and up. ![]() ![]() ![]() But back in 2012, shortly before I had the idea for the book I began a relationship with a man who's eldest brother is trans, and he had transitioned maybe a year before I met their family. I've always been curious about gender and have always had a pretty skeptical attitude around gender constructs and constraints- the themes in this book are questions which have always interested me. ![]() I'm an actor by training, and I think there is a predisposition in professional make-believers to slip into other experiences outside your own. I'm never really sure where to begin when answering this question, because the making of this book was such a big process for me, with a long gestation period, so there are many, many tributaries flowing into the larger river that became Julián is a Mermaid, and it's difficult to name a single source of inspiration, so I'll name several. "Why did you choose to write Julián? What inspired the book?" I'm including the two questions I get asked a lot, and their responses, below.ġ. On being a white, cishet artist creating outside my experience.Īfter a recent interview for Teaching for Change, I was encouraged to adapt a portion of the interview into a post on my own site. ![]() ![]() Instead of judging Grace for giving up her child as their mother did, Maya and Joaquin are compassionate and sympathetic to their sister’s plight. ![]() Grace, however, tries to conceal the secret of her teen pregnancy until one day she is forced to tell Maya and Joaquin the truth. After harboring the shame of this secret for years, Maya and Grace encourage Joaquin to forgive himself and let go of the past. He tells them about the time he accidentally hurt his foster sister when he was a child. 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