This is the year
Gloria Muñoz (Author)
"Seventeen-year-old self-proclaimed goth and aspiring writer Julieta Villarreal is drowning. She's grieving her twin sister who died in a hit-and-run, her Florida home is crumbling under the weight of climate disaster, and she isn't sure how much longer she can stay in a place that doesn't seem to have room for her. So when she is recruited by Cometa, a private space program seeking gifted immigrant teens for a mission to establish humanity's first extraterrestrial settlement, she jumps at the chance to enlist. Juli begins her training, convinced Cometa is her path to freedom. But her senior year is full of surprises, including new friendships, roller skating, and first love. And through her small but poignant acts of environmentalism, Julia begins to find hope in unexpected places. As her world collapses from the ramifications of the climate crisis, Juli must decide if she'll carry her loss together with her community or leave it all behind. Told in gripping prose interspersed with poems from Juli's writing journal, this genre-bending novel explores themes of immigration, climate justice, grief, and the power of communities. Juli's story will speak to any reader struggling with the state of our world and how to understand their place in it" -- Jacket flap
Print Book, English, 2025
First edition
Holiday House, New York, 2025