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Alejandro Varela

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Alejandro Varela writes humorous, sexy, and brilliantly neurotic tales about the messiness of modern life, long-term relationships, and the structural anxieties of the body politic.

His debut novel, The Town of Babylon, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His follow-up story collection, The People Who Report More Stress, was named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and longlisted for the Jean Stein Award and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. His latest novel, Middle Spoon, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, explores unorthodox queer family dynamics with what Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer calls "arias of love and choruses of doubt... a sly, analytical opera of the heart."

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	The Town of Babylon 3.91 avg rating — 3,875 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“His small talk was always medium sized. Not the burdensome kind that you wanted to avoid or the filler you quickly forget. Artie was, I guess, cool.”
― Alejandro Varela, The People Who Report More Stress

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“You probably won’t believe me, but this relationship business is easier when you start young. You learn about yourselves and the world as you go along. Your growth is tangled up. Trying to do this now, more than 20 years into adulthood, is near impossible. I don’t have the energy. I don’t want to push people. Being on the same page isn’t enough. It has to be the same paragraph. Or sentence. Make sense?”
― Alejandro Varela, The People Who Report More Stress

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“Remember, many less thoughtful people have been great parents. Don’t overthink it. You’ll do fine.”
― Alejandro Varela, The People Who Report More Stress

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