NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed The Xtravaganzas must learn to navigate sex work, addiction, and persistent abuse, leaning on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them.Īll are ambitious, resilient, and determined to control their own fates, even as they hurtle toward devastating consequences. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must bear the responsibility of tending to their house alone.Īs mother of the house, Angel recruits Venus, a whip-fast trans girl who dreams of finding a rich man to take care of her Juanito, a quiet boy who loves fabrics and design and Daniel, a butch queen who accidentally saves Venus’s life. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit.
It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own.īurned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without.
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