Hombrecito

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593542185 ISBN13: 9780593542187 Release Date: June 2024 Publisher: Riverhead Books Length: 336 Pages Weight: 0.75 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5" A 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 motherland In 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 that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves.