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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 FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
En esta innovadora novela, Santiago José Sánchez nos sumerge en el corazón de la vida de un niño. Su madre se lo lleva a él y a su hermano de Colombia a Estados Unidos, dejando atrás a su padre ausente, pero ella misma esencialmente desaparece una vez que llegan a Miami. En Estados Unidos, su madre trabaja como camarera cuando antes fue médico. El niño abraza su identidad queer con el mismo entusiasmo con el que abraza su nuevo hogar, pero no sin un sentimiento de pérdida. A medida que crece, su relación con su madre se vuelve tensa, enredada, un amor tan intenso que roza un dolor vívido, pero también es el eje alrededor del cual giran todas sus decisiones. Puede que ella lo haya olvidado una vez, desaparecido, pero él siempre la tiene en mente. Se muda a Nueva York, entrando y saliendo de la cama con diferentes hombres mientras busca algo, a alguien, que lo vuelva a completar. Cuando su madre lo invita a visitar a la familia en Colombia con ella, él regresa al país como un joven, tratando de encontrar la paz con su padre, con su patria, con lo que se ha convertido desde que se fue, y con quien es su madre: finalmente llegamos a conocerla a ella y a sus secretos, su compleja ambivalencia y su feroz amor. Hombrecito es un conmovedor retrato de una persona joven entre culturas, entre diferentes ideas de sí mismo. De un talento nuevo y extraordinario, esta es una historia contada con una belleza e intensidad sorprendentes, una historia para cualquiera que busque su hogar, que busque una forma de amar.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
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. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind. He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he's become since he left, and with who his mother is: finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love. Hombrecito--"little man"--is a moving portrait of a young person between cultures, between different ideas of himself. From an extraordinary new talent, this is a story told with startling beauty and intensity, a story for anyone searching for home, searching for a way to love.
Author: Santiago Jose Sanchez
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
ISBN13: 9798890982438
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
En esta innovadora novela, Santiago José Sánchez nos sumerge en el corazón de la vida de un niño. Su madre se lo lleva a él y a su hermano de Colombia a Estados Unidos, dejando atrás a su padre ausente, pero ella misma esencialmente desaparece una vez que llegan a Miami. En Estados Unidos, su madre trabaja como camarera cuando antes fue médico. El niño abraza su identidad queer con el mismo entusiasmo con el que abraza su nuevo hogar, pero no sin un sentimiento de pérdida. A medida que crece, su relación con su madre se vuelve tensa, enredada, un amor tan intenso que roza un dolor vívido, pero también es el eje alrededor del cual giran todas sus decisiones. Puede que ella lo haya olvidado una vez, desaparecido, pero él siempre la tiene en mente. Se muda a Nueva York, entrando y saliendo de la cama con diferentes hombres mientras busca algo, a alguien, que lo vuelva a completar. Cuando su madre lo invita a visitar a la familia en Colombia con ella, él regresa al país como un joven, tratando de encontrar la paz con su padre, con su patria, con lo que se ha convertido desde que se fue, y con quien es su madre: finalmente llegamos a conocerla a ella y a sus secretos, su compleja ambivalencia y su feroz amor. Hombrecito es un conmovedor retrato de una persona joven entre culturas, entre diferentes ideas de sí mismo. De un talento nuevo y extraordinario, esta es una historia contada con una belleza e intensidad sorprendentes, una historia para cualquiera que busque su hogar, que busque una forma de amar.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
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. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind. He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he's become since he left, and with who his mother is: finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love. Hombrecito--"little man"--is a moving portrait of a young person between cultures, between different ideas of himself. From an extraordinary new talent, this is a story told with startling beauty and intensity, a story for anyone searching for home, searching for a way to love.
Author: Santiago Jose Sanchez
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
ISBN13: 9798890982438
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
About the Author
Santiago Jose Sanchez (they/them), Grinnell College Assistant Professor of English and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is a queer, Colombian American writer. Santiago's writing has appeared in McSweeney's, ZYZZYVA, Subtropics, Joyland, and been distinguished in Best American Short Stories. They are the recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship from the University of Iowa and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellowship from Lambda Literary. Residence: Grinnell, Iowa Hometown: Miami, Florida