Description: "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"--
Review Quotes: Praise for Hombrecito
"Sanchez's powerful first novel follows a young boy from Colombia to the United States and back again as he struggles with abandonment issues, acclimating to a new homeland and grappling with his own queer sexual awakening."
--Washington Post
--NPR "Exquisite and emotionally charged."
--Oprah Daily "Santiago Jose Sanchez had already made a mark on the literary world before their book hit the shelves, but once Hombrecito reaches a wider audience, it will never be forgotten... it's easy to find oneself in the pages of Hombrecito thanks to Sanchez's brilliant writing."
--Screenrant "A beautiful coming-of-age novel about the fractured bond between a young queer man and his mother...a remarkably honest portrait of self-discovery that is full of tenderness and desire and grief -- all the things that make us human."
--Vulture "A dazzling chronicle of a queer immigrant's coming of age in Colombia and Miami... This is a triumph."
--Publishers Weekly (starred) "Intense and tender...Part family saga, part coming-of-age story, the novel reckons with issues of abandonment, migration, and gay identity ... marks the emergence of an exciting new voice in American fiction."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Sanchez has spun the first-generation experience into a narrative unlike one I've read before. Full of longing, dislocation, and desire, they capture perfectly the no soy de aquí y no soy de allá existence of immigrants and of queerness more broadly. A beautiful debut."
--Alejandro Varela, author of The Town of Babylon "Dynamic, electrifying, and oh so tender, Hombrecito is the rare kind of page-turner I devoured in two sittings. Utterly American and Colombian, this is a magnificent story for anyone on a mission to redefine home, loss, and love in all its complicated forms and sources."
--Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
"Hombrecito is a gorgeous novel of the in-between, the waiting lull, and the changing mind, that shows Santiago Jose Sanchez to be a brilliant poet of silence, desire, light, and shadow. These sentences left me speechless."
--Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life
"Captures with rare vividness the rapture and terror of childhood, the way self-making and self-destruction can grow so tangled as to be indistinguishable. This is a novel of enormous insight, musicality, and love. Sanchez is a stunning new talent."
--Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness "Hombrecito soars. A gorgeous, intense, and moving portrait of queerness, migration, desire, and abiding love. Sanchez has made something beautiful."
--Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different "Hombrecito is a charged and charmed tapestry; drawn from a painstaking and meticulous eye-witness account of a young immigrant, navigating the perilous fault lines of place within family and his awaking sexuality. Your heart will be first shattered then expanded forever."
--Brontez Purnell, author of 100 Boyfriends
"[A] soulful debut."
--Michelle Hart, Electric Lit "It's as an electrifying book with sentences that will leave you speechless."
--Debutiful