Remember Me: A Novel

"A hauntingly beautiful debut." -NewInBooksA man carrying a fire he won't outrun. A Venezuelan refugee with nothing left to lose. A connection neither can risk.What does it mean to love someone who is already disappearing?For readers of Ocean Vuong, André Aciman, and Patricia Engel, Remember Me is a novel of longing, exile, and the charged intimacy of being seen in ways that cannot be undone.Gabriel fled Chicago after the fire, desperate to escape the grief and restlessness that had begun to hollow out the life he once knew. In Bogotá, staying with an ex-lover, he is determined to keep himself contained: safe, distant, under control. The trip is meant to be temporary, a small reprieve from the cycles he cannot seem to outrun. Then he meets Mateo.A Venezuelan refugee surviving on the margins of the city, Mateo has learned to live with uncertainty and the quiet ache of wanting more than life seems willing to give. But beneath his restraint is a steadiness Gabriel cannot explain, and a way of seeing him that unsettles everything he thought he understood about himself. Their connection is immediate, an instant recognition neither of them should have welcomed, yet both allow it: a small, dangerous opening neither can take back."Because I saw him. And because he saw me."Mateo's world is shaped by forces Gabriel has never known: displacement, scarcity, and the constant threat of losing even what little remains. As their connection grows, the careful boundaries Gabriel has built around himself begin to give way. Back in Chicago, Gabriel tries to return to the life he once knew, only to find that distance has deepened what began between them, leaving him unable to imagine a future untouched by Mateo. Within months, he makes a reckless choice, following Mateo into the collapsing heart of Venezuela he once fled, where devotion is tested against sacrifice, survival, and truths that threaten to alter everything.

Pagina's: 324, Hardcover, Romi Publishing LLC