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The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaA debut novel about domestic malaise & suburban decline, following Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returning to his hometown for a 20-year high school reunion.
"An incisive taxonomy of the American suburb, looking beyond the white picket fence to tell a different story—what it is to be queer, the child of immigrants, & a person of colour in this country." — Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind
2022 National Book Award Finalist
When his father falls ill, Andrés, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband’s infidelity & with little else to do, he decides to attend his 20-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two children after having been incarcerated & recovering from addiction. Paul, who Andrés has long suspected of having killed a man in a homophobic attack, is now an Evangelical minister & father of 5. And Simone, Andrés's best friend, is in a psychiatric institution following a diagnosis of schizophrenia. During this short stay, Andrés confronts these relationships, the death of his brother, & the many sacrifices his parents made to offer him a better life.
"[Alejandro] Varela’s debut novel shimmers with tension, navigating the personal & political with practised ease. Treading the waters of adolescence & adulthood, The Town of Babylon navigates the complexities of home, queerness, & messy histories with measure & empathy. Weaving together histories of immigration, economic unease, & the health complications of racism in America, Varela troubles ideas of community & shared experience amidst a polarizing landscape." — Kaitlynn Cassady, Seminary Co-op Bookstores
A novel about the essential nature of community in maintaining one’s own health, The Town of Babylon i
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