Hombrecito A Novel

Santiago Jose Sanchez, André Santana

eAudio - 2024

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant’s complex relationships with his mother and his motherlandIn this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy’s life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami.In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense t...hat it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind.He moves to New York, ducking in and...

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Language
English
Main Authors
Santiago Jose Sanchez, André Santana
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File Size281 GB
ISBN9780593867402
Release Date6/25/2024