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Hombrecito: A Novel

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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 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Books (June 25, 2024)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593542185


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 87


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.09 x 8.54 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #344,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #93 in LGBTQ+ Family Life Fiction (Books) #1,204 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #5,621 in Family Life Fiction (Books)


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  • Heart Warming, Wrenching & Real
This book felt like peering into the life of someone and truly transported you in the story of Santiago and his family. The authors way of conspicuously painting the imagery of an environment was profound and truly made this such an enjoyable read.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2024 by Joel

  • An Instant Gay Classic
If you're looking for a great book to close off Pride month Homrecito is for you. It's a beautiful comig of age story that take place in Colombia and the United States. The story revolves around a boy named Santiago and his life growing up in Colombia with his brother, absent father and mother who oftentimes is out working and not there for the boys. They are forced to take care of each other with the issue of Santiago feeling different than the other boys. It turns out that he is falling for a male friend of his. Soon after he and his brother and mother are forced to move to the USA. Life is different there and he tries to fit in being gay. The story telling style is beautiful. You will go back and read sentences over a second time. They literally come alive on the page and the familiarity of growing up gay come through in this book. It brought back a lot of memories and pain of not being able to be yourself in the society everyone else is growing up in. When Santaiago take a trip back to his home country as an adult life there is different. It's much rougher and he is exploring his relationship with men and who he is a person. This is a great book for people who loving gay coming out stories and doesn't try to sugarcoat things. There are graphic scenes or scenes that may may you uncomfortable but it's the characters reality and that is the reason we read books. Understanding one another and how difficulties shape our lifes for good or bad. We must work through them so we can become the person we want to be and live a life that is truly authentic. If you choose to do anything else the reuslts will usually not make you happy. This book will become a classic in the canon of gay literature. Thank you to Riverhead Books and Netgaley for the read. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024 by James C

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