"It's 1980. Ronald Reagan has been elected president, John Lennon has been shot, and a little girl in New Jersey has been hauled off to English classes. Her teachers and parents and tias are expecting her to become white - like the Italians. This is the memoir of the daughter of a working-class Colombian mother and Cuban father - her rebellions and negotiations with the women who raised her and the world that wanted to fit her into a cubbyhole. From language acquisition to coming out as bisexual to arriving as a reporting intern at the New York Times as the paper is rocked by its biggest plagiarism scandal, Daisy Hernandez chronicles what the women in her community taught her about race, sex, money, and love. A story about the private nexus of sexuality, immigration, race and class issues, and ultimately a daughter's cuento of how to take the lessons from home and shape them into a new, queer life. Daisy Hernndez is the former executive editor of ColorLines magazine."--Provided by publisher.