Join in an in-person event with Aaron H. Aceves, author of “This Is Why They Hate Us.”
AUTHOR TALK DETAILS
August 23 @ 7:00 pm
Book People
603 N Lamar Blvd
Austin, Texas 78703
More Details: https://www.bookpeople.com/event/event-aaron-h-aceves-why-they-hate-us
[In Conversation with Aiden Thomas]
August 24 @ 7:00 pm
The Astoria Bookshop
31-29 31st Street
Astoria, New York 11106
RSVP Here: https://astoriabookshop.com/events
[In Conversation with Brian D. Kennedy]
August 26 @ 6:00 pm
Books of Wonder
42 West 17th Street
New York, New York 10011
More Details: https://booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcoming/this-is-why-they-hate-us-launch-082622
About the Author:
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 jmww, Epiphany, and them., among other places. He currently lives in Texas, where he serves as an Early Career Provost Fellow at UT Austin. He can be found at AaronHAceves.com or @AaronAceves on Instagram or @AaronHAceves on Twitter and TikTok.
About the Book:
This fun, irreverent summer romp is Netflix’s Never Have I Ever meets What If It’s Us about a high school senior determined to get over his unrequited feelings for his best friend by getting under someone else.
Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Never mind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Never mind 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.
