A NATIONAL BESTSELLER and an award-winning novel in stories surrounding a young, half-white, half-Puerto Rican boy grappling with life, love, and identity as he comes of age.
In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become.
“A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carvers or Jeffrey Eugenidess voice did when we first heard it.”The Washington Post

“We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. Its heartbreaking. Its beautiful. It resembles no other book Ive read.Michael Cunningham
“A miracle in concentrated pages, you are going to read it again and again.”Dorothy Allison
“Rumbles with lyric dynamite . . . Torres is a savage new talent.”Benjamin Percy, Esquire
“A fiery ode to boyhood