Description

Here's what it means to be a tortillera.

It means you're a girl who loves girls.

Which means you get kicked out of Catholic school faster than Mother Superior Sicko can say "immoral."

Which means your wacko Mami finds out.

Which means you're kicked to the curb with nowhere to go, and the love of your life is shipped off to Puerto Rico to marry a guy.

But this is Miami, and if you have a bighearted best friend and a loyal puppy at your side, and if your broken heart is still full of love, you just might land on your feet.

In a first novel as crazy, joyful, hilarious, and painful as your first love, Mayra Lazara Dole goes beyond the many meanings of tortillera to paint a vivid picture of a girl who gets kicked out of home only to find a new kind of family.

About the Author

Mayra Lazara Dole is an author who has also been a drummer, dancer, landscape designer, Cuban “chef,” hairdresser, and library assistant. She was born in Cuba and now lives in Miami with her partner, Damarys.

Praise for Down to the Bone…

“…honest, intense and at times moving romance.” — Publishers Weekly
-Publishers Weekly

“Dole’s infusion of lively, spicy Cuban-American culture set against a hot Miami setting makes it rise above many other titles in the genre.”
-School Library Journal

“Supportive precisely because it is laugh-out-loud irreverent, this breakthrough novel will be welcomed.”
-Booklist (starred review)