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* AwfulWeddedLife: Solange and Hugo.
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* CharacterTitle: The English title, anyway which is a truncated version of the Spanish title ''Sirena Selena vestida de pena''[[labelnote:translation]] Literally, ''Sirena Selena Clothed in Sorrow''[[/labelnote]].
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* ProtagonistTitle: The English title, anyway which is a truncated version of the Spanish title ''Sirena Selena vestida de pena''[[labelnote:translation]] Literally, ''Sirena Selena Clothed in Sorrow''[[/labelnote]].
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* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Martha Divine has invested a lot of money and time in Sirena Selena. After Sirena disappears without trace, Martha is furious at first, but comes to an understanding that Sirena will do whatever it takes to survive. After all, they are NotSoDifferent. She still feels entitled to smack Sirena in the face if they ever meet again.
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* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Martha Divine has invested a lot of money and time in Sirena Selena. After Sirena disappears without trace, Martha is furious at first, but comes to an understanding that Sirena will do whatever it takes to survive. After all, they are NotSoDifferent. She still feels entitled to smack Sirena in the face if they ever meet again.
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* TraumaButton: Hugo Graubel presses one when he refers to Sirena as "Sirenit'''o'''", a masculine form of the name. Think "little ''merman''" instead of "little mermaid".
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Within the same sentence, Sirena is referred to with masculine ''and'' feminine pronouns.
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* IncompatibleOrientation:
** Solange and Hugo. He married her to hide his homosexuality in a very homophobic society. He tries to love her ("I will love you, Solange, like I always wanted to love a woman.") but the time comes when he can no longer fool himself.
** Hugo and Sirena: It becomes clear when Hugo calls Sirena "Sirenit'''o'''", a masculine diminutive.
** Solange and Hugo. He married her to hide his homosexuality in a very homophobic society. He tries to love her ("I will love you, Solange, like I always wanted to love a woman.") but the time comes when he can no longer fool himself.
** Hugo and Sirena: It becomes clear when Hugo calls Sirena "Sirenit'''o'''", a masculine diminutive.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: What sets La Sirena from all other drag queens around.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: What sets La Sirena from all other drag queens around. When she is singing at Hugo’s party, all guests are transfixed.
* BigPrickBigProblems: La Sirena struggles with “tucking”, given that she performs in drag.
* BigPrickBigProblems: La Sirena struggles with “tucking”, given that she performs in drag.
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* BigPrickBigProblems: La Sirena struggles with “tucking”, given that she performs in drag.
* DisproportionateRetribution: La Sirena's grandmother tells a story of how when she was a young girl, there were a lot of sex workers in her neighborhood. Her father was decided to defend her and her sisters' honor. One day, he found her sister Finín making out with a sailor and along with her brother, drags her out by the hair. He ends up giving her a beating so bad that [[GoneHorriblyRight Finín rebels and becomes a sex worker for real]].
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Martha Divine has invested a lot of money and time in Sirena Selena. After Sirena disappears without trace, Martha is furious at first, but comes to an understanding that Sirena will do whatever it takes to survive. After all, they are NotSoDifferent. She still feels entitled to smack Sirena in the face if they ever meet again.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Martha lets Sirena know how stunning she herself was in her youth. %%* ParentalSubstitute: Martha to Sirena.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Martha Divine has invested a lot of money and time in Sirena Selena. After Sirena disappears without trace, Martha is furious at first, but comes to an understanding that Sirena will do whatever it takes to survive. After all, they are NotSoDifferent. She still feels entitled to smack Sirena in the face if they ever meet again.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: La Sirena's grandmother tells a story of how when she was a young girl, there were a lot of sex workers in her neighborhood. Her father was decided to defend her and her sisters' honor. One day, he found her sister Finín making out with a sailor and along with her brother, drags her out by the hair. He ends up giving her a beating so bad that [[GoneHorriblyRight Finín rebels and becomes a sex worker for real]].
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Within the same sentence, Sirena is referred to with masculine ''and'' feminine pronouns.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: What sets La Sirena from all other drag queens around.
* BilingualBonus: In addition to all the GratuitousEnglish, the chapter from the point of a gay Canadian tourist is written in English even in the Spanish version of the novel.
* BilingualBonus: In addition to all the GratuitousEnglish, the chapter from the point of a gay Canadian tourist is written in English even in the Spanish version of the novel.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Solange and Hugo.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sirena is raised by his grandmother. When she dies, he ends up homeless and living in the streets until a drag queen by the name of Valentina Frenesí takes him in. He doesn't go hungry, but he is assaulted by a john. And then [[BuryYourGays Valentina is murdered]], leaving him alone.
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** Sirena is raised by his grandmother. When she dies, he ends up homeless and living in the streets until a drag queen by the name of Valentina Frenesí takes him in. He doesn't go hungry, but he is assaulted by a john. And then [[BuryYourGays Valentina is murdered]], leaving himalone.alone.
** Solange grew up impoverished thanks to her AlcoholicDad.
** Sirena is raised by his grandmother. When she dies, he ends up homeless and living in the streets until a drag queen by the name of Valentina Frenesí takes him in. He doesn't go hungry, but he is assaulted by a john. And then [[BuryYourGays Valentina is murdered]], leaving him
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* MeaningfulName: Sirena. In Spanish, ''sirena'' is the word for [[SirensAreMermaids both a mermaid and a siren in Greek Mythology]]. Sirena plans to exploit Hugo Grabiel with her vocal talents.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Martha lets Sirena know how stunning she herself was in her youth.
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* BuryYourGays: In her POV chapter, Martha Divine mentions drag queens that lost their lives to AIDS or to violence.
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* RapeAsBackstory: While still living with Valentina Frenesí, Sirena goes off with a client who rapes her. After Valentina finds her the next day, Sirena spends the next five days in hospital.
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''Sirena Selena'' is the first novel by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. The title character is a homeless gay teen who resorts to sex work to survive. Things look up when Martha Divine, the aging drag queen who owns a gay bar, hears him sing. Impressed, Martha Divine takes him under his wing to help him become the most beautiful drag performer anyone has seen. They travel to the Dominican Republic for what Martha hopes will be a good business opportunity.
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''Sirena Selena'' is the first novel by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. The title character is a homeless gay teen who resorts to sex work to survive. Things look up when Martha Divine, the aging drag queen who owns a gay bar, hears him sing. Impressed, Martha Divine takes him under his wing to help him become the most beautiful drag performer anyone has seen. They travel to the Dominican Republic for what Martha hopes will be a good business opportunity.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Sirena's grandmother dies and there are no family members who could take him in. Rather than go to a [[OrphanageOfFear group home]] where he would be unsafe, he chooses to live I the streets.
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* AttractiveBentGender: In drag, Sirena Selena is an absolute beauty, thanks to Martha Divine's mentoring.
* CharacterTitle: The English title, anyway which is a truncated version of the Spanish title ''Sirena Selena vestida depena''.pena''[[labelnote:translation]] Literally, ''Sirena Selena Clothed in Sorrow''[[/labelnote]].
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Sirena's grandmother dies and there are no family members who could take him in. Rather than go to a [[OrphanageOfEvil [[OrphanageOfFear group home]] where he would be unsafe, he chooses to live I the streets.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Sirena's grandmother dies and there are no family members who could take him in. Rather than go to a [[OrphanageOfEvil group home]] where he would be unsafe, he chooses to live I the streets.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Sirena's grandmother dies and there are no family members who could take him in. Rather than go to a [[OrphanageOfEvil group home]] where he would be unsafe, he chooses to live I the streets.
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''Sirena Selena'' is the first novel by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. \n\n The title character is a homeless gay teen who resorts to sex work to survive. Things look up when Martha Divine, the aging drag queen who owns a gay bar, hears him sing. Impressed, Martha Divine takes him under his wing to help him become the most beautiful drag performer anyone has seen. They travel to the Dominican Republic for what Martha hopes will be a good business opportunity.
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''Sirena Selena vestida de pena'' (English title: Sirena Selena) Selena'' is a the first novel by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres.
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''Sirena Selena vestida de pena'' (English title: Sirena Selena) is a novel by Mayra Santos-Febres.
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Interestingly, ''Sirena Selena vestida de pena'' translates to "Sirena Selena is dressed in grief". But the English editions have a truncated title.
