Town of Babylon Dystopian barren aesthetics distracts from the

barren aesthetics distracts from the practice of living with intention

a beautiful meditation on process and distance and duration

jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools

he finds himself confronted by questions he'd never imagined

Town of Babylon Dystopian barren aesthetics distracts from theA FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing *Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity Andrs, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband's