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After Cuban American teen Laura is forced out of the closet, her community rejects her as "revolting." While rebuilding her life, Laura comes to terms with herself. Dole's heart-on-sleeve style veers toward melodrama, and the secondary characters are very broadly painted, but the nuanced treatment of gender and cultural identity is welcome and refreshing. Glos.