Hot Boy Summer by Joe Jiménez - ISBN: 9781665932066
Paperback
Gay teens, Texas heat, friendship, and discovering truth this summer.

Hot Boy Summer

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    12 August 2025

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Summary

Four gay teens in Texas have the summer of their lives while discovering important truths about realness, belonging, and friendship in this “explosive prose debut for the gays and theys growing up outside of the box” ( Booklist, starred review).

Mac has never really felt like he belonged. Definitely not at home—his dad’s politics and toxic masculinity make a real connection impossible. He thought he fit in on the baseball team, but that’s only because he was pretending to be …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781665932066
ISBN-10:1665932066
Author:Joe Jiménez
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Simon & Schuster
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:12 August 2025
Weight:254g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm x 23mm
About The Author

Joe Jiménez

Joe Jiménez is the author of the poetry collection Rattlesnake Allegory and the young adult novels Hot Boy Summer and Bloodline. He was the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize, and he was awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship. His writing has appeared on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Joe lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is a high school English teacher and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.

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