Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author . HarperCollins/ Rayo $24.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-077920-7
A poet, children's book author, former priest and author of House of Forgetting
, Saenz returns with the gut-wrenching drama of a Mexican-American family's dissolution. Ten-year-old Andrés Segovia sees his life ripped apart after his...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author . Harper Perennial $14.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-06-128569-1
In Sáenz’s lyrical sixth novel, Octavio Espejo leads an ordinary life in multiethnic 1967 El Paso: he sells insurance and is raising three children with his wife, Lourdes. Octavio was brought to the U.S. from revolutionary Mexico as a...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author . Simon & Schuster $16.99 (321p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4963-3
Setting this wise and trenchant coming-of-age story in El Paso, Tex., Sáenz (Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
) alternates between two teenage narrators from very different backgrounds who nonetheless share the same disfiguring pain—their
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author . Cinco Puntos $19.95 (239p) ISBN 978-1-933693-58-3
“I don’t like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don’t like feeling things,” writes Zach as a homework assignment from his therapist at the outset of this psychologically intense novel. Tracing 18-year-old Zach&#
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author Copper Canyon Press $15 (71p) ISBN 978-1-55659-239-3
Divided into twelve ""dreams,"" Saenz's direct and moving book-length poem traces the outline of his own life-he was raised Mexican-American in New Mexico, and has now settled in El Paso along the same border-as it highlights his own commitment to...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author HarperCollins $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-018738-5
Thomas Blacker, a University of Chicago academic with an impeccable reputation, has a filthy little secret, which comes to light when she stabs him with a dinner knife in his Hyde Park mansion. His secret, 30-year-old Gloria Erlinda Santos, whom he...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (503p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6135-4
The river metaphor courses everywhere through this first novel by the author of the American Book Award-winning poetry collection Calendar of Dust. It's evident in the spate of words that gushes from every character, including deaf-mute Chicano...
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0892-0
Fifteen-year-old Aristotle (Ari) has always felt lonely and distant from people until he meets Dante, a boy from another school who teaches him how to swim. As trust grows between the boys and they become friends (a first for Ari), Ari’s world opens
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Benjamin Alire S%C3%A1enz. Cinco Puntos, $16.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-935955-32-0
Sáenz's moving collection of short stories hinges on the intergenerational clientele of the titular borderland watering hole just south of the U.S.-Mexican divide on Avenida Juárez. In "The Rule Maker," a bilingual boy raised by his single mother in
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Clarion, $17.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-544-58650-5
Sáenz (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe) explores the relationships of a high school senior during troubling times, in a coming-of-age story suffused with warmth and compassion. Sal is devastated when he learns that his...
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz, read by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-6641-1
In Sáenz’s novel, 15-year-olds Aristotle and Dante struggle with the complexities and insecurities of growing up as they try to understand and navigate family secrets, their sexual identities, their identities as Mexican-Americans, and their...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author, Benjamin Alire Senz, Author, Esau Morales, Illustrator , illus. by Esau Andrade Valencia. Cinco Puntos $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-933693-01-9
Sáenz's (He Forgot to Say Goodbye
) haunting work, presented in English and Spanish, is part short story, part fable. Octavio Rivera, an elegant, white-haired grandfather, experiences an astonishing series of dreams that grow more...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author, Geronimo Garcia, Illustrator , illus. by Geronimo Garcia. Cinco Puntos $17.95 (36p) ISBN 978-1-933693-54-5
Diego Domínguez from A Gift from Papá Diego
(1998) returns in this bilingual sequel that sees the boy’s family gaining a new member—a puppy from the Humane Society named Sofie. Diego and his older sister, Gabriela, both...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author, Benjamin Alire SC!Enz, Author, Benjamin Alire Senz, Author Cinco Puntos Press $10.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-938317-33-3
""A border is nothing for people who love,"" Papa Diego tells his young grandson, also named Diego, in this engaging, bilingual picture-book debut by American Book Award winner Saenz. Diego's birthday is coming, and he longs to see his Papa Diego,...
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, Author, Benjamin Alire SC!Enz, Author, Benjamin Alire Senz, Author Cinco Puntos Press $11.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-938317-23-4
Saenz's second book of poetry (Calendar of Dust won an American Book Award in 1992) moves through the vast and sometimes boggy territory of his Southwestern heritage. Constructed as a memorial for family and friends and as a view of the often weird...
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