№ 2 · Aristotle and Dante
Ari has spent all of high school burying who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can’t go back. Suddenly he finds himself reaching out to new friends, standing up to bullies of all kinds, and making his voice heard. And, always, there is Dante, dreamy, witty Dante, who can get on Ari’s nerves and fill him with desire all at once.
The boys are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn’t understand them. But when Ari is faced with a shocking loss, he’ll have to fight like never before to create a life that is truthfully, joyfully his own.
The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an achingly romantic, tender tale sure to captivate fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H.K. Choi.
Ari has spent all of high school burying who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can’t go back. Suddenly he finds himself reaching out to new friends, standing up to bullies of all kinds, and making his voice heard. And, always, there is Dante, dreamy, witty Dante, who can get on Ari’s nerves and fill him with desire all at once.
The boys are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn’t understand them. But when Ari is faced with a shocking loss, he’ll have to fight like never before to create a life that is truthfully, joyfully his own.
The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an achingly romantic, tender tale sure to captivate fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H.K. Choi.
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The borderlands of the American Southwest serve as the defining setting for complex stories of identity, family, and emotional healing across young adult fiction, adult prose, and poetry. Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz gained wide recognition for portraying Mexican American youth, queer identity, and life along the U.S.–Mexico border with tenderness and emotional honesty. His young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World continues the story of two young men growing up and finding love in late-twentieth-century Texas.
Born on August 16, 1954, in Doña Ana County near Las Cruces, New Mexico, Sáenz was raised on a small farm in Old Picacho. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Philosophy from St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado, in 1977, studied theology at the University of Louvain in Belgium, and served as a Catholic priest in El Paso, Texas, before leaving the priesthood in 1985 to pursue writing. He subsequently earned a Master of Arts in creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he later joined the faculty to teach creative writing. After 15 years of marriage to an El Paso family court judge, Sáenz came out as gay at age 54, and the couple filed for divorce in 2009; he has frequently spoken about writing as a central medium for processing long-standing personal struggles. In 2013, Sáenz became the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Book Award for Fiction for his short story collection Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. On October 29, 2022, he was honored with the inaugural Hummingbird Award in Literary Arts by the Tulsa City-County Library and the Hispanic Resource Center.
Sáenz's narrative style is characterized by poetic lyricism, direct dialogue, and deep emotional realism. His work focuses extensively on transitional spaces—such as the geographic and social border between El Paso and Juárez—exploring how physical and cultural boundaries entangle lives on both sides. Recurring themes across his novels and poetry include grief, cultural displacement, adoption, family bonds, and the journey toward self-acceptance among marginalized youth and adults.
1 books in catalog
The borderlands of the American Southwest serve as the defining setting for complex stories of identity, family, and emotional healing across young adult fiction, adult prose, and poetry. Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz gained wide recognition for portraying Mexican American youth, queer identity, and life along the U.S.–Mexico border with tenderness and emotional honesty. His young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World continues the story of two young men growing up and finding love in late-twentieth-century Texas.
Born on August 16, 1954, in Doña Ana County near Las Cruces, New Mexico, Sáenz was raised on a small farm in Old Picacho. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Philosophy from St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado, in 1977, studied theology at the University of Louvain in Belgium, and served as a Catholic priest in El Paso, Texas, before leaving the priesthood in 1985 to pursue writing. He subsequently earned a Master of Arts in creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he later joined the faculty to teach creative writing. After 15 years of marriage to an El Paso family court judge, Sáenz came out as gay at age 54, and the couple filed for divorce in 2009; he has frequently spoken about writing as a central medium for processing long-standing personal struggles. In 2013, Sáenz became the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Book Award for Fiction for his short story collection Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. On October 29, 2022, he was honored with the inaugural Hummingbird Award in Literary Arts by the Tulsa City-County Library and the Hispanic Resource Center.
Sáenz's narrative style is characterized by poetic lyricism, direct dialogue, and deep emotional realism. His work focuses extensively on transitional spaces—such as the geographic and social border between El Paso and Juárez—exploring how physical and cultural boundaries entangle lives on both sides. Recurring themes across his novels and poetry include grief, cultural displacement, adoption, family bonds, and the journey toward self-acceptance among marginalized youth and adults.
Aristotle and Dante
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