A huge thank you to translator extraordinaire, Larissa Helena, who captured Felipe’s voice perfectly in a new language, and especially for coming up with “asspecialist.” We couldn’t have done it without you!
And, finally, thanks to all the people who fought and are still fighting for the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community. If today I get to publish a book about two boys who fall in love, I owe it all to you. Thank you for never giving up. We’re in this fight together. The whole world is ours.
Vitor Martins lives in São Paulo, Brazil, and works as an illustrator and book marketer. He believes that representation in young adult literature is a powerful weapon, and his main goal as a writer is to tell stories of people who have never seen themselves in a book. Follow him online at vitormartins.blog and on Twitter and Instagram at @vitormrtns.
Originally published in Brazilian Portuguese in 2017 as Quinze Dias by Globo Alt.
Text copyright © 2017 by Vitor Martins
English translation © 2020 by Larissa Helena
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Martins, Vitor, 1991– author. | Helena, Larissa, translator.
Title: Here the whole time / Vitor Martins; translated by Larissa Helena.
Other titles: Quinze dias. English
Description: First edition. | New York, NY: PUSH, 2020. | “Originally published in Brazilian Portuguese in 2017 as Quinze Dias by Globo Alt.” | Audience: Ages 14–up. | Audience: Grades 10–12. | Summary: When Felipe, who is very insecure about his weight, is forced to spend winter break with his long-term crush, Caio, he must face his unresolved issues head-on.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020022252 (print) | LCCN 2020022253 (ebook) | ISBN 9781338620825 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781338675948 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Overweight persons—Fiction. | Self-esteem—Fiction. | Gays—Fiction. | Mothers and sons—Fiction. | Single-parent families—Fiction. | Brazil—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M3742 Her 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.M3742 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022252
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022253
First edition, November 2020
Jacket art © 2020 by Max Reed
Jacket design by Baily Crawford
e-ISBN 978-1-338-67594-8
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