The Town of Babylon

✍ Scribed by Alejandro Varela

• Book ID: 112148959
• Publisher: Astra Publishing House
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 684 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781662601040

✦ Synopsis

**ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - BuzzFeed , LitHub , Electric Literature , LGBTQ Reads , Latinx in Publishing _
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Recommended by _The New York Times_
"An incandescent bildungsroman." --Publisher's Weekly , Starred Review
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"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 Ladies
In this contemporary debut novel--an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity --Andres, 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...