Remember Me: A Novel Paperback – January 12, 2026

“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.For readers of Ocean Vuong, André Aciman, and Patricia Engel, Remember Me is a character-driven, emotionally immersive novel of longing, displacement, and the charged intimacy of being seen in ways that cannot be undone.“Because I saw him. And because he saw me.”Gabriel fled Chicago after the fire, desperate to escape a life that was closing in on him. In Bogotá, sheltered in the immaculate world of an ex-lover, he is determined to keep his life contained—safe, distant, under control. There, he meets Mateo.A Venezuelan refugee living on the margins of the city, Mateo carries the quiet intensity of someone who has lost too much and learned not to ask for more. Their connection is immediate—and destabilizing, an instant recognition neither of them should have welcomed, yet both allow it, a small, dangerous opening neither can take back.Mateo’s life is shaped by forces Gabriel has never known: displacement, poverty, and the constant threat of having even less to hold on to. What begins between them erodes the careful distance Gabriel has built his life around, exposing its limits and the man he has become. He makes a reckless choice—one that pulls him beyond the fragile sanctuary he has constructed and into the collapsing heart of Venezuela Mateo once fled.A luminous literary novel of love between two men, exile, and the fragile courage it takes to truly know another person, Remember Me asks: what does it mean to love someone who is already disappearing? Read more