02436cam a2200301 4500 1469229153 TxAuBib 20240730120000.0 240715s2024||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781420514780 hardcover alk. paper 1420514784 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib Ordorica, Andrés N. How we named the stars [Large Type Book] : a novel / Andrés N. Ordorica. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich] : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2024. 457 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices "When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first--but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their relationship takes flight, Daniel is pulled away, first by Sam's hesitation and then by a brutal turn of events that changes Daniel's life forever. As he grapples with profound loss, Daniel finds himself in his family's ancestral homeland in Mexico for the summer, finding joy in this setting even as he struggles to come to terms with what's happened and faces a host of new questions: How does the person he is connect with this place his family comes from? How is his own story connected to his late uncle's? And how might he reconcile the many parts of himself as he learns to move forward? Equal parts tender and triumphant, Andres N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars is a debut novel of love, heartache, redemption, and learning to honor the dead; a story of finding the strength to figure out who you are--and who you could be--if only the world would let you"--Provided by the publisher. 20240730. Male college students Fiction. Gay men Fiction. Life change events Fiction. New York (State) Fiction. Mexico Fiction. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices. RV8