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How We Named the Stars

How We Named the Stars

Ordorica, Andrés N.

Paperback

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1959030337
ISBN13: 9781959030331
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A Best Book of January at The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Alta Journal

A touching story about a transformative queer romance.―The New York Times Books Review

Named One of the 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2024 by The Observer (UK)

Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica's debut novel is a tender and lyrical exploration of belonging, grief, and first love―a love story for those so often written off the page.

When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first--but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their relationship takes flight, Daniel is pulled away, first by Sam's hesitation and then by a brutal turn of events that changes Daniel's life forever.

As he grapples with profound loss, Daniel finds himself in his family's ancestral homeland in México for the summer, finding joy in this setting even as he struggles to come to terms with what's happened and faces a host of new questions: How does the person he is connect with this place his family comes from? How is his own story connected to his late uncle's? And how might he reconcile the many parts of himself as he learns to move forward?

Equal parts tender and triumphant, Andrés N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars is a debut novel of love, heartache, redemption, and learning to honor the dead; a story of finding the strength to figure out who you are--and who you could be--if only the world would let you.

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