Name: Yamile Mendez | The Trouble with Sunshine
Start: 2025-03-05T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-03-05T20:30:00-07:00
Location: The King's English Bookshop

Yamile Mendez | The Trouble with Sunshine

Join local author, Yamile Mendez, for a discussion and signing of her new middle grade novel, The Trouble with Sunshine.
About this Event

Join local author, Yamile Mendez, for a discussion and signing of her new middle grade novel, The Trouble with Sunshine.

This event is open to the public. Tickets are $5.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of The Trouble with Sunshine to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of The Trouble with Sunshine may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King's English.

About the book:

A heartwarming story about grief and new beginnings, by Pura Belpré Award-winning author Yamile Saied Méndez.

The Trouble with Sunshine is it comes even if you don't think you deserve it.
Dorani's mom, Isa, taught her to be bold and challenge the rules if they don't seem fair. People are more important than rules. But she never taught Dorani how to do it all without her. So, when Isa dies on the way to speak with the principal about Dori's latest revolution, Dori loses her voice. Her grief and guilt become the loudest parts of her.
Moving from vibrant Miami to quiet, middle-of-nowhere Wyoming with her aunt feels like the punishment she deserves. She spends most of her time with their newest horse, Sunshine. Sunshine was involved in an accident that's left her skittish and hard to care for. Tia Ivette knows her behavior comes from fear, and she is trying everything to make Sunshine brave again. But Dori knows grief can feel like fear... and grief is just love with no place to go.
Speaking up for Sunshine reminds Dori that the very best parts of her mother live on through her, and so when she starts to notice that the rules at her new school unfairly target specific students, she knows just what her mother would do...