CAARES Presents: Neurodivergent Author Talk, with Sonido Reyes

Join CAARES for a virtual conversation with Sonido Reyes, the neurodivergent author of the new YA novel, "The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar." SUNY Empire students, RSVP on Connects for your chance to win a signed copy of the novel! 
 
From bestselling author Sonido Reyes comes a poignant and searingly honest companion novel to the multi-award-winning "The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School," following beloved character Cesar Flores as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis, and more mistakes than he can count. 
 
Seventeen-year-old Cesar Flores is finally ready to win back his ex-boyfriend. Since breaking up with Jamal in a last-ditch effort to stay in the closet, he’s come out to Mami, his sister, Yami, and their friends, taken his meds faithfully, and gotten his therapist’s blessing to reunite with Jamal. 
 
Everything would be perfect if it weren’t for The Thoughts—the ones that won’t let all his Catholic guilt and internalizations stay buried where he wants them. The louder they become, the more Cesar is once again convinced that he doesn't deserve someone like Jamal—or anyone really. 
 
Cesar can hide a fair amount of shame behind jokes and his “gifted” reputation, but when a manic episode makes his inner turmoil impossible to hide, he’s faced with a stark choice: burn every bridge he has left or, worse—ask for help. But is the mortifying vulnerability of being loved by the people he’s hurt the most a risk he’s willing to take? 

Born and raised in Arizona, Reyes is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, The Luis Ortega Survival Club, and The Broposal. He also has contributed short stories to the anthologies Transmogrify! and For the Rest of Us. They write fiction celebrating queer and Mexican stories in a variety of genres, with current projects in both kidlit and adult categories.