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The Town of Babylon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781662601033)
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xA FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing
*Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel--an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity --Andr駸, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband's infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andr駸 falls into old habits with friends he thought he'd left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds. Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.
Author: Alejandro Varela
ISBN-10: 1662601034
ISBN-13: 9781662601033
Publisher: Astra House
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2022
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
Library Journal 12/09/2022 pg. 1
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing
*Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel--an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity --Andr駸, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband's infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andr駸 falls into old habits with friends he thought he'd left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds. Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.
Author: Alejandro Varela
ISBN-10: 1662601034
ISBN-13: 9781662601033
Publisher: Astra House
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2022
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
Library Journal 12/09/2022 pg. 1
By Alejandro Varela
xAlejandro Varela (he/him) is a writer based in New York. His writing has appeared in the Point Magazine, Boston Review, Harper's, Split Lip, the Georgia Review, the Rumpus, the Brooklyn Rail, the Offing, and the New Republic, among other publications. He is a 2019 Jerome Fellow in Literature. He was a resident in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 2017-2018 Workspace program and a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction. Alejandro is an editor-at-large of Apogee Journal. His graduate studies were in public health. His first book, The Town of Babylon, was published by Astra House in 2022. His second book, The People Who Report More Stress, is forthcoming (Astra House, 2023). Varela believes strongly in reparations, land back, a national health service, and a thirty dollar minimum wage pegged to inflation as interventions essential for the collective liberation of our society. Access his work at alejandrovarela.work. You can also find him on Twitter and IG: @drovarela.
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