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In 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. More about this book >
Alejandro Varela at the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading
Alejandro Varela has published work in The Georgia Review, The Point magazine, Boston Review, and Harper’s, among other outlets. His graduate studies were in public health. The Town of Babylon is Varela’s first novel, his second novel, The People Who Report More Stress is forthcoming.
(Photo credit: Matias Pelenur)
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