EAN: 9781662601033

THE TOWN OF BABYLON - ALEJANDRO VARELA GEBUNDEN

A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS
LITERARY PRIZEA LIBRARY JOURNAL AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2022ONE OF THE MOST
ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 BuzzFeed  LitHub  Electric Literature  LGBTQ Reads  Latinx in
Publishing_Recommended by The New York Times_Haunting  sublime  solemn  and true. Robert Jones
Jr.  author of The Prophets[An] intense  astute meditation on race  family  class  love  and
friendship. Deesha Philyaw  author of The Secret Lives of Church LadiesIn this contemporary
debut novel an intimate portrait of queer  racial  and class identity Andrés  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  Andrés 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.

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