Town of Babylon, The

In this contemporary debut novelan intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity Andrs, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husbands 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 neighbourhood where he grew up, Andrs falls into old habits with friends he thought hed 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.