Historically Inaccurate

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.