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Character Zoe Gutierrez’s identity plays an important role in the book, as she is written as a half-Mexican and half-Jewish lesbian.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

Her mother was Baroness Eva Sacher-Masoch, a Hungarian, half-Jewish former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis in World War II.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

“I’m half-Jewish, so I was hidden in the German half of my family,” Mr. Bartenieff explained in an oral history recorded in 2015 for the Primary Stages Off Broadway Oral History Project.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2022

For years, Mr. Forman vaguely told interviewers that he believed himself to be half-Jewish, though both parents attended a Protestant church.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2018

I have no idea if Martin is half-Jewish.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli