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Barcode30053003731687
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF VARE
Title The town of Babylon : a novel / Alejandro Varela.
Author Varela, Alejandro, 1979- author.
CollectionAdult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003731687F VARE11/14/2022 Available

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Personal Name Varela, Alejandro, 1979- author.
Title Statement The town of Babylon : a novel / Alejandro Varela.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Astra House, [2022]
Physical Description 299 pages ; 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "When his father falls ill, Andre´s, 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 his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two children after having been incarcerated and recovering from addiction. Paul, who Andre´s has long suspected of having killed a man in a homophobic attack, is now an Evangelical minister and father of five. And Simone, Andre´s's best friend, is in a psychiatric institution following a diagnosis of schizophrenia. During this short stay, Andre´s confronts these relationships, the death of his brother, and the many sacrifices his parents made to offer him a better life. A novel about the essential nature of community in maintaining one's own health, The Town of Babylon is an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity, a call to reevaluate the ties of societal bonds and the systems in which they are forged"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Class reunions Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Communities Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Homecoming Fiction.

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