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In advance of her new middle grade novel with Dan Poblocki, illustrated by Ricardo Bessa Jackson Bright in the Spotlight , Eureka O'Hara reflects on her journey

The book hits stands on Oct. 21 and follows a young boy who enters a talent contest as a drag queen after being told to "dress like a boy" at school

"There will be storms, but there will also be sunshine. There will be nights of doubt, but there will be mornings of triumph," writes O'Hara

A Letter to My Younger Self by Eureka O’Hara

Dear Little David Lee Huggard Jr.,

I see you. I see you sitting there in your small bedroom in Tennessee, with the weight of the world pressing down on your little shoulders. I see how you try to hide parts of yourself because you’re afraid of how people will look at you if they s

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