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Avi Roques warm and musical narration is utter perfection They capture Ander and Santis fear with vivid immediacy and also infuse their voices with bubbly happiness In moments of tenderness their breath catches They switch easily between Spanish and English and use a halfdozen unique accents for different characters This audiobook is a heartbreaking joyful love letter to queer Latinx communities AudioFile

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa Ander amp Santi Were Here about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their familys taqueria

Finding home Falling in love Fighting to belong

The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio Texas is all Ander Martnez has ever known The smell of pan dulce The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets And especially their job at their familys taquera Its the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist and as they get ready to leave for art school its all of these things that give them hesitancy That give them the thought are they ready to leave it all behind

To keep Ander from becoming complacent during their gap year their family fires them so they can transition from restaurant life to focusing on their murals and prepare for college That is until they meet Santiago Lpez Alvarado the hot new waiter Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing Through Santis eyes Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist and Ander becomes Santis first steps toward making Santos Vista and the United States feel like home

Until ICE agents come for Santi and Ander realizes how fragile that sense of home is How love can only hold on so long when the whole world is against them And when eventually the world starts to win

A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books