This month we'll be meeting in the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library's conference room \;401-D to discuss " The Town of Babylon" by Alejandro Varela. \;
\nWhen his father f alls ill\, André\;s goes back home to tend to his recovery. Reevalua ting his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with l ittle else to do\, André\;s decides to attend his twenty-year high s chool reunion\, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth.< /p>\n
Jeremy\, his first love\, is now married with two children after h aving been incarcerated and recovering from addiction. Paul\, who Andr&eac ute\;s has long suspected of having killed a man in a homophobic attack\, is now an Evangelical minister and father of five. And Simone\, Andr&eacut e\;s's best friend\, is in a psychiatric institution following a diagnosis of schizophrenia. During this short stay\, André\;s confronts these relationships\, the death of his brother\, and the many sacrifices his pa rents made to offer him a better life.
\nA novel about the essential nature of community in maintaining one's own health\, \;The Town of B abylon \;is an intimate portrait of queer\, racial\, and class identit y\, a call to reevaluate the ties of societal bonds and the systems in whi ch they are forged.
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