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Ander & Santi Were Here

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Ander & Santi Were Here

De: Jonny Garza Villa
Narrado por: Avi Roque
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Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023

Long-listed, ALA Stonewall Book Award Honor Book, 2023

"[Avi] Roque's warm and musical narration is utter perfection. They capture Ander and Santi's 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 half-dozen 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 & Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family’s taqueria.

Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.

The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Martínez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially their job at their family's taquería. It's the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's 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 López Alvarado, the hot new waiter. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi's eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist, and Ander becomes Santi's 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.

©2023 Jonny Garza Villa (P)2023 Macmillan Audio Creadores LGBTQIA+ LGBT Literatura y Ficción Romance Sincero De suspenso

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"In Santi, Garza Villa has done a superb job of verisimilitude, taking their readers into the precarious life and circumstances of an undocumented teen. The love between the two teens is beautifully realized without a false note, proving that Garza Villa is as much an artist as Ander."—Booklist, Starred Review

"[A] blistering tale of enduring love and communal care."—Publishers Weekly

"Explores love and growing up viewed through artistic lenses.... A relevant coming-of-age journey."—Kirkus

Dear Listener,

What was my favorite part about writing this story?
"Normalizing nonbinary. One hundred percent. Originally, in my early drafts, I wrote Ander as a cis male, which was never a "bad" choice. Still, I can recall the moment when I realized "this character isn’t cis; this is a fully nonbinary teenager," and how that truly awakened who Ander is. It informed not only their queerness, but also their colorfulness, emotions, and penchant for picking fights, allowing their loudness to come through in a way that was different and, more importantly, felt like them. Of course, this also came with the opposite side of that personality coin: someone who feels like an outsider in spaces; someone who is looking for validation in what they love.
I also enjoyed writing a nonbinary character for a story that does not center around their coming out. Ander is out. Ander has been out. Their family and friends don’t misgender them. Their queerness alongside Santi’s queerness isn’t a plot point for the book, but something beautiful that connects the two of them. And getting to do that, at a time when I was figuring out that my own gender identity doesn’t fit a binary, was indescribably fulfilling." - Jonny Garza Villa, writer of Ander and Santi Were Here
Beautiful Storytelling • Powerful Representation • Perfect Narrator • Vivid Imagery • Emotional Impact

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Such a powerful, necessary , and brilliant story. Loved everything about it. And the audible narrator did a wonderful job embodying the story characters too.

Such a beautiful and loving story

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this book might go down as my favorite book ever. it was emotional. and heartwarming. and informative to those outside the cultures in the book. Ander and Santi were beautiful characters and I don't know how I'm supposed to read another book now

listen.to.this.book

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I read Ander and Santi Were Here in physical copy in a day because I couldn’t put it down, and immediately had to get it on audio. Avi is a wonderful narrator and this story will have a hold on my heart for a long long time.
Amazing story, amazing narration, highly recommend

So beautiful

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The book/audible was so good! It is really refreshing to read and re-imagine a family and community that supports Lgbtq+ Tejane/chicane/latine. It was the representation I didn’t know I needed. As a non-binary queer chicanx from San Antonio. This book felt like home. 💚💚💚

Ander & Santi Were Here is a must read!

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as someone who grew up in texas, as someone who has felt “too melanated”, i can’t recover from this book. the plot, the romance, the love, everything. i feel like a piece of me is missing after finishing this book.

i had a traumatizing relationship, and the ex loved sunflowers. it was his whole personality. without giving spoilers, this book helped me see sunflowers in a better light. instead of thinking of my ex, i will now think of ander and santi’s beautiful relationship. sunflowers are beautiful to me now.

i thank this artist for the POC, non-binary, and queer representation in this beautiful book. if anyone’s reading this, please read this book. you can’t not.

incredible. just incredible.

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