Overview
A novel by a brilliant new voice, a queer coming of age story about a young immigrant’s complex relationship with his mother and his motherland.
A young boy is waiting for his mother to pick him up from school. But his mother has forgotten she’s a mother and never shows up. She’s gone to find his absent father in the hills of Colombia. When she finally returns, she tosses the father’s belongings into the backyard and emigrates with her two boys to Miami where their lives take dramatic new shape.
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 it is 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, 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 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.
A young boy is waiting for his mother to pick him up from school. But his mother has forgotten she’s a mother and never shows up. She’s gone to find his absent father in the hills of Colombia. When she finally returns, she tosses the father’s belongings into the backyard and emigrates with her two boys to Miami where their lives take dramatic new shape.
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 it is 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, 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 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.
This book title, Hombrecito / Little Man, ISBN: 9798890982438, by Santiago Sánchez, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (February 4, 2025) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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