Town of Babylon Lawrence Warren author Tonya Molton faced seemingly

author Tonya Molton faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles

and to the start of a new friendship

stressed and overwhelmed

both sides convinced of their own righteousness

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Town of Babylon Lawrence Warren author Tonya Molton faced seeminglyA 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