Federico Erebia

About Federico Erebia

Federico Erebia is a Mexican American author whose debut work, Pedro & Daniel, is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel published by Levine Querido. The book draws on Erebia's own life and the life of his younger brother, rendering them as fictionalized versions of themselves—Pedro and Daniel—across interconnected stories that begin in the late 1960s.

Pedro & Daniel

Published with illustrations by Julie Kwon, Pedro & Daniel tells the story of two Mexican American brothers and their LGBTQ+ experiences across five distinct narrative sections. The graphic novel is structured as a series of interlocking vignettes rather than a single continuous plot, building an intimate portrait of family, identity, and the particular pressures of growing up queer in communities where those identities were seldom acknowledged or welcomed.

Publishers Weekly called it a "luminous semi-autobiographical debut," praising its emotional honesty and the distinctiveness of the brothers' voices. The book was published by Levine Querido, an independent imprint known for championing diverse literary voices in children's and young adult literature.

Censorship

Pedro & Daniel was challenged and removed in Katy ISD in Texas, where it was flagged alongside other books featuring LGBTQ+ content. The removal is consistent with a wave of challenges targeting books that depict the lives of queer and transgender young people with honesty and dignity—particularly books that show queer characters as protagonists rather than peripheral figures.