Santiago Jose Sanchez Hombrecito

About the author:

Santiago Jose Sanchez, a Grinnell College assistant professor of English and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a queer Colombian American writer. Their writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, ZYZZYVA, Subtropics, and Joyland and has been included in The Best American Short Stories. They are the recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship from the University of Iowa and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellowship from Lambda Literary.

About the book:

A queer coming-of-age story, Hombrecito reimagines the American immigrant narrative for a new generation, following a boy whose mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami. Hombrecito—“little man”—is a moving portrait of a young person caught between cultures and between different ideas of himself. Told with startling beauty and intensity, this is a story for anyone searching for home, searching for a way to love.

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