Romiette and Julio is a novel by Sharon Draper than modernizes William Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet for a more diverse and contemporary audience.
In the book, Romiette is a young African-American woman who has little interest in boys or dating until she meets Julio, a Hispanic teenager and recent transplant from Corpus Christi, Texas, in an online chat room. The pair discovers that they attend the same high school and eventually fall in love despite the disapproval of their families and the looming threat of gangs who dislike their interracial relationship.
Cornell Cappelle is Romiette's father, and he is employed as a reporter at the local news station in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a relatively minor character in the book, he is largely portrayed as a good father who is always willing to lend a sympathetic ear to his daughter when she needs it--a departure from the strict parenting style of Lord Capulet in the original Shakespearean text.
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