EAN: 9781662601033

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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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