santiago
jose sanchez
A FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, DEBUTIFUL, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
OUT IN PAPERBACK
JUNE 24
a queer coming-of-age story by a brilliant new voice about a young immigrant’s complex relationships with his mother and motherland.
“A terrific new literary voice. Their debut novel sizzles. . . Sanchez is an author to watch.”
—NPR
“Exquisite and emotionally charged.”
—Oprah Daily
“[A] soulful debut.”
—Michelle Hart, Electric Lit
“It’s as an electrifying book that will leave you speechless.”
—Debutiful
About santiago
Sanchez (they/them) is a queer Colombian American writer and educator. Their stories have been published in McSweeney's, ZYZZYVA, Subtropics, and Joyland. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Yale University and former professor at Grinnell College and Oberlin College, Sanchez now teaches fiction at Carnegie Mellon University. Hombrecito, their debut novel, is now out from Riverhead.
june 18
upcoming events
PLUM CITY READING SERIES: LOGANBERRY BOOKS @ 7PM
june 24
HOES FOR PROSE x HOMBRECITO PAPERBACK LAUNCH: THE WORD IS CHANGE @7PM
june 26
QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERARY THURSDAYS: VIRTUAL @6PM
PRAISE for Hombrecito
“Sanchez has spun the first-generation experience into a narrative unlike one I’ve read before. Full of longing, dislocation, and desire, Hombrecito 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
“Hombrecito soars. A gorgeous, intense, and moving portrait of queerness, migration, desire, and abiding love. Sanchez has made something beautiful.”
Sarah Thankam Matthews, author of All This Could Be Different
“Hombrecito is a gorgeous novel 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
"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. You heart will be first shattered then expanded forever."
Brontez Purnell, author of 100 Boyfriends
“Hombrecito 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. Sanchez is a stunning new talent.”
Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness
“Dynamic, electrifying, and oh so tender, Hombrecito is the rare kind of page-turner I devoured in two sittings.”
Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
ConTACT
For press or media inquiries for Hombrecito, please reach out to Claire McGinnis at Riverhead Books.
For literary rights or other related matters, please contact Jin Auh at The Wylie Agency.