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Town of Babylon

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Title: Town of Babylon
Author: Varela, Alejandro
ISBN: 9781662601033
Publisher: Astra House
Published: 2022
Binding: Book
Language: English
Condition: New
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Publisher Description:
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing

A gay Latinx man reckons with his past when he returns home for his 20th high school class reunion in Varela's dazzling debut...an incandescent bildungsroman
--Starred review, Publisher's Weekly

Varela's debut novel shimmers with tension, navigating the personal and political with practiced ease. Treading the waters of adolescence and adulthood, The Town of Babylon navigates the complexities of home, queerness, and messy histories with measure and empathy. Weaving together histories of immigration, economic unease, and the health complications of racism in America, Varela troubles ideas of community and shared experience amidst a polarizing landscape.
--Kaitlynn Cassady, Seminary Co-op Bookstores

[An] intense, astute meditation on race, family, class, love, and friendship. Varela's wry humor is the icing on the cake of this brilliant novel. --Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction

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, and a person of color in this country. --Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind, finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction

A debut novel about domestic malaise and suburban decline, following Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returning to his hometown for a twenty-year high school reunion.

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 and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of hi