The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar
2026 Schneider Family Book Awards Honor MPIBA's Reading the West YA Longlist "This is Sonido Reyes at their absolute best." ā Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys
From bestselling author Sonido Reyes comes a poignant and searingly honest companion novel to the multi-award-winning The Lesbianaās Guide to Catholic School, following beloved character Cesar Flores as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis, and more mistakes than he can count.
Seventeen-year-old Cesar Flores is finally ready to win back his ex-boyfriend. Since breaking up with Jamal in a last-ditch effort to stay in the closet, heās come out to Mami, his sister, Yami, and their friends, taken his meds faithfully, and gotten his therapistās blessing to reunite with Jamal.
Everything would be perfect if it werenāt for The Thoughtsāthe ones that wonāt let all his Catholic guilt and internalizations stay buried where he wants them. The louder they become, the more Cesar is once again convinced that he doesn't deserve someone like Jamalāor anyone really.
Cesar can hide a fair amount of shame behind jokes and his āgiftedā reputation, but when a manic episode makes his inner turmoil impossible to hide, heās faced with a stark choice: burn every bridge he has left or, worseāask for help. But is the mortifying vulnerability of being loved by the people heās hurt the most a risk heās willing to take?
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2026 Schneider Family Book Awards Honor MPIBA's Reading the West YA Longlist "This is Sonido Reyes at their absolute best." ā Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys
From bestselling author Sonido Reyes comes a poignant and searingly honest companion novel to the multi-award-winning The Lesbianaās Guide to Catholic School, following beloved character Cesar Flores as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis, and more mistakes than he can count.
Seventeen-year-old Cesar Flores is finally ready to win back his ex-boyfriend. Since breaking up with Jamal in a last-ditch effort to stay in the closet, heās come out to Mami, his sister, Yami, and their friends, taken his meds faithfully, and gotten his therapistās blessing to reunite with Jamal.
Everything would be perfect if it werenāt for The Thoughtsāthe ones that wonāt let all his Catholic guilt and internalizations stay buried where he wants them. The louder they become, the more Cesar is once again convinced that he doesn't deserve someone like Jamalāor anyone really.
Cesar can hide a fair amount of shame behind jokes and his āgiftedā reputation, but when a manic episode makes his inner turmoil impossible to hide, heās faced with a stark choice: burn every bridge he has left or, worseāask for help. But is the mortifying vulnerability of being loved by the people heās hurt the most a risk heās willing to take?
