Name: HOW WE NAMED THE STARS Andrés N. Ordorica & Andrew McMillan in conversation
Start: 2024-08-01T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-01T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Blackwell's Bookshop

$HOW WE NAMED THE STARS Andr\u00e9s N. Ordorica & Andrew McMillan in conversation$

Andrés N. Ordorica talks to host Andrew McMillan about his incredible debut novel HOW WE NAMED THE STARS.
About this Event

We're delighted to be welcoming Andrés N. Ordorica to Manchester for the launch of HOW WE NAMED THE STARS - a heartbreaking, beautiful novel of love and loss and one of the Observer's best debuts pick for 2024 . Andrés will be in conversation with Andrew McMillan.

Doors: 6.30, starts: 6.45

Tickets start from £3.00. HOW WE NAMED THE STARS will also be available to purchase on the night and Andrés will be signing copies after the talk. If you would like a signed copy but cannot make the event, please contact us on or [email protected] and we can arrange this for you.

About the book:

‘Hearing you say my name was a way of seeing myself as I had never seen myself … you gave my name new meaning, new weight.’

Nerdy and shy, scholarship student Daniel de La Luna arrives at college nervous to meet his golden-haired, athletic roommate, whose Facebook photos depict a boy just like those who made Daniel’s school years hell.

Sam Morris is not what he had imagined, though. As the two settle into college life they drink tequila under the stars, go on long runs through snow-covered hills, explore freshman nightlife, and inch closer until they find themselves in love.

But their blissful first year is over all too soon. Daniel’s summer in his ancestral homeland of México becomes a rollercoaster of revelations, before his life is brutally upended by the unimaginable.

How We Named the Stars is a tale of love, heartache and learning to honour the dead. Daniel and Sam will leave you forever changed.

About the author:

Andrés N. Ordorica (he/him) is a queer Latinx poet, writer, and educator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and his own third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá (neither here, nor there). He is the author of the poetry collection, At Least This I Know, and the novel, How We Named The Stars. His writing has been shortlisted for the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, the Mo Siewcharran Prize and the Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year.