Hombrecito

"Santiago Jose Sanchez is a terrific new literary voice. Their debut novel sizzles, a queer coming-of-age novel about a boy who emigrates from Colombia and later returns to his homeland as a young man – only to realize his life is in the U.S. Sanchez communicates the anxiety and discomfort of adjusting to life in Miami, and later trying to make it in New York, while his relationship with his mother becomes increasingly fraught. He embraces his sexuality with dangerous lows and stunning highs. Against the odds, the protagonist ends up at Yale. If he is a fish out of water there, he’s a young man deserving of every academic opportunity. Sanchez is an author to watch."