Alejandro Varela
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A Best Book of 2023 - Publisher's Weekly, Electric Literature, Chicago Public Library
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STORY PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
"Alejandro Varela’s The People Who Report More Stress: Stories is a master class in analyzing the unspoken." —The New York Times
"A searing collection about gentrification, racism, and sexuality." —Publishers...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STORY PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
"Alejandro Varela’s The People Who Report More Stress: Stories is a master class in analyzing the unspoken." —The New York Times
"A searing collection about gentrification, racism, and sexuality." —Publishers...
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"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...