A young boy grapples with growing up a first generation Cuban/Chinese American and the cultural conflicts in his heart and mind. His mother is a Santeria priestess. His father detached and emotionally unavailable, the boy navigates brutal sexual abuse for 12 years. How to be a boy with no childhood. How to live a lie when that is all you know. How to find a way out.
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