Hombrecito / Santiago Jose Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanchez, Santiago Jose, author.

Contributor:

Local Philadelphia: Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Fiction.

Immigrants.

Parent and child--Fiction.

Parent and child.

Colombia--Fiction.

Colombia.

Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.

Identity (Psychology).

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Genre:

Queer fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Gay fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

329 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Sanchez, Santiago Jose. Hombrecito

ISBN:

9780593542187

0593542185

OCLC:

1401655325