With all these choices, Quique is sure to forget about Saleem in no time.īut 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. 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.
Luckily, Quique’s prospects are each intriguing in their own ways. 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. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Aceves’ debut novel, This Is Why They Hate Us, is laugh-out-loud funny, from Enrique’s analogies for sexual attraction, including a scene in which he compares bisexuality to choosing which dessert to eat at a wedding, to the awkward result of his brief dive into a hookup app. His work has appeared in Germ Magazine, Raspa Magazine, New Pop Lit, and inQluded, where he serves as the culture editor. This 'hilariously chaotic and profound' ( Adam Silvera, 1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End) summer romp is Netflixs Never Have I Ever meets What If Its Us about a high school senior determined to get over his unrequited feelings for his best friend by getting under someone else.
He graduated from Harvard College in 2015, where he received the Le Baron Russell Briggs Prize after being nominated by Jamaica Kincaid. Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer-get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Aceves is a Mexican American writer born and raised in East Los Angeles.
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