{"product_id":"hombrecito-9780593542194","title":"Hombrecito","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel by a brilliant new voice, \u003ci\u003eHombrecito\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant's complex relationships with his mother and his motherland \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHombrecito--\u003c\/i\u003e\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Santiago Jose Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593542194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSantiago Jose Sanchez\u003c\/b\u003e (they\/them) is a queer Colombian American writer and artist born in Ibagué, Colombia. Their stories have been featured in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSubtropics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Yale University, Sanchez teaches at Grinnell College and lives in Iowa, Miami, and New York City. \u003ci\u003eHombrecito\u003c\/i\u003e is their debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Santiago Jose Sanchez \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47283546947741,"sku":"9780593542194","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_f5d7af96-0fad-46dc-965e-51a30442cc03.jpg?v=1759967487","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/hombrecito-9780593542194","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}