Celebrate the release of local Dominican author Camille Gomera-Tavárez’s new young adult fiction book—The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat (Levine Querido, February 2024)—at Taller Puertorriqueño, on February 7, 2024, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, with Q&A, book signing, and light refreshments.

Description: Rosie: Capricorn. Does great in class. Wants nothing more than to get into the prestigious Innovation Technical Institute and kiss this awful school goodbye. Her talisman: a magical jacket from her mother’s past that gets people to do whatever she says.

Caro: Taurus. Rosie’s older sister. Always been closer to their estranged father – and always butted heads more with their strict mother. A trip to Dominican Republic for her father’s wedding leads her deep into family history that clears up any illusions about her parents she’s ever had. Her talisman: a baseball bat that fixes whatever it breaks.

Zeke: Certified Triple Pisces. Up in cold-ass Jersey City living with his aunt after his grandmother dies and his father moves to London to take care of his mother. He crushes on EVERYone – he knows he’ll find happiness in love, and maybe a way out of this depression. His talisman: a manifestation stone that will make anyone fall in love with him.

Rosie, Caro, and Zeke – and their talismans – find themselves intertwined in a magical, hilarious, and whip-smart Outsiders for the modern day, written by Camille Gomera-Tavarez, a 2022 Publishers Weekly Flying Start.

Camille Gomera-Tavarez is an Afro-Dominican graphic designer, illustrator, and authoress from Clifton, NJ. She graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design and a minor in Creative Writing from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her first book, High Spirits, was a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, earned three starred reviews, and called a “soulfully crafted debut.” Visit her at www.cgtdesign.net.

For more information and to pre-order the book, visit https://www.shoptallerpr.org/grbb