Hombrecito - A Novel

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

A novel by a brilliant new voice,

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.

About the author

Santiago Jose Sanchez

Product details

• Authors: Santiago Jose Sanchez
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2025
• EAN: 9780593542194
• ISBN: 978-0-593-54219-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 202 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people, Family life fiction / Stories about family