num_pages: 368
description: Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary love story about a Mexican-American teen who falls in love with an undocumented Mexican boy. 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 family's taquera. 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 Lpez 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.
language: English
title: Ander & Santi Were Here
publisher: Wednesday Books