
Historically Inaccurate
by Shay Bravo
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Pub Date Sep 29 2020 | Archive Date May 10 2021
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Description
It only takes one moment to change your life forever . . .
After her mother’s deportation last year, all Soledad “Sol” Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything’s changed—new apartment, new school, new family dynamic—and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college’s history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray’s oldest house and steal . . . a fork?
There’s just one problem: while the owners of the house aren’t home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn’t as important as being yourself—even if that’s the hardest thing she’s ever had to do.
THEMES: Immigration, Deportation, Family Separate, Latina / Mexican-American Female Author
ABOUT SHAY BRAVO:
Sheila Bravo is a 24 year old Mexican-American writer based in Texas, who immigrated from Mexico when she was twelve years old. She has been writing on Wattpad for nearly a decade, and started writing Historically Inaccurate in 2017 and won the 2019 Watty Awards. Her stories have accumulated over 52 million reads to date on Wattpad.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781989365373 |
PRICE | $10.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 352 |
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Featured Reviews

This was a very pleasant surprise. I knew there are amazing stories on Wattpad I just never took the time to look for one, and when I saw the synopsis of this one it intrigued me. And thank god I requested it because it's such a well-written story that acknowledges many issues like deportation, racism, and family relationships, although briefly. I love the characters so much. Soledad is a very interesting, thoughtful character, and her friends and her fellow club members all felt like genuine people that you relate to one way or another. The diversity didn't seem forced at all, but I can't say how good the representation is, because I can't speak for other people. Shay's writing, as simple as it is, is moving and captured my attention from page one and I applaud her for that. I can't wait to read more from her and I'm very very proud.
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