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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: town of Babylon
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Varela, Alejandro
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 299 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two children after having been incarcerated and recovering from addiction. Paul, who Andrés has long suspected of having killed a man in a homophobic attack, is now an evangelical minister and father of five. And Simone, Andrés's best friend, is in a psychiatric institution following a diagnosis of schizophrenia. During this short stay, Andrés 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.
  note: Alejandro Varela.
  subject:
    topic: Homecoming
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Class reunions
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Communities
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / General
  classification: PS3622.A7413 T69 2022
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781662601033
  identifier: 1662601034
  identifier: 9781662601040
  identifier: 2021043855
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210909
    record change date: 20221129195403.6
    record identifier: in00004600370