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Alejandro Ruiz
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Length
10 hours 2 minutes
Language
English
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“With a funny & natural character voice, Aceves' debut had me laughing out loud, gasping, and pausing the audiobook to actually yell about some choices Quique makes. For #disasterbi teens everywhere - these characters are messy in a real and relatable way! ”
— Miriasha • Phoenix Books
Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to meet a girl his parents are trying to set him up with.
Luckily, Quique’s prospects are each intriguing in their own ways. There’s stoner-jock Tyler Montana, who might be just as interested in Fabiola as he is in Quique; straitlaced senior-class president, Ziggy Jackson; and Manny Zuniga, who keeps looking at Quique like he’s carne asada fresh off the grill. With all these choices, Quique is sure to forget about Saleem in no time.
But as the summer heats up and his deep-seated fears and anxieties boil over, Quique soon realizes that getting over one guy by getting under a bunch of others may not have been the best laid plan and living his truth can come at a high cost.
Aaron H. Aceves is a bisexual Mexican American writer born and raised in East Los Angeles. He graduated from Harvard College and received his MFA from Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in publications such as jmww, Epiphany, and them. He currently lives in Texas, where he serves as an Early Career Provost Fellow at UT Austin. For more information, visit AaronHAceves.com.
Alejandro Ruiz is a bilingual non-binary indigenous Mexican-American voice actor based in Los Angeles. Their voice can be heard on award-winning audiobooks, video games, Netflix and Cartoon Network animated series, podcasts for NPR and Wondery, commercials for Amazon, as the Spanish voice of the US Census, on National Geographic and Disney+, and as the voice of the U.S. Center for Disease Control's national HIV campaign in both English and Spanish.
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