Alejandro Varela presents MIDDLE SPOON

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Join us in Remington to celebrate Alejandro Varela's new novel Middle Spoon! Alejandro will be in conversation with Baltimore writer Nate Brown!

ABOUT MIDDLE SPOON:

A whipsmart, blazingly funny novel about heartbreak, unconventional love, and the way society could be, from National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela

The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois life—and a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps him, he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships. Faced with the judgment of friends and the sting of rejection, he’s left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible.

With a big heart and just the right dose of the anxieties that define the modern era, Middle Spoon skewers the unspoken rules we still live by—from taboos around intimacy to the shortcomings of Oscar season, pop culture, and gluten-free food—offering a surprising perspective on love, loss, and reinvention. Equal parts heart-wrenching and uproariously funny, Middle Spoon is for anyone who has longed, nursed a broken heart, or grappled with love at its messiest.

Middle Spoon releases on Tuesday, Septmeber 9 and is available for preorder at greedyreads.com!

Alejandro Varela’s (he/him) debut novel, The Town of Babylon, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His short story collection, The People Who Report More Stress, was one of Publishers Weekly’s best works of fiction in 2023, a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards, and longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, The Story Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Varela, who is based in New York, is an editor-at-large of Apogee Journal and holds a master’s in public health from the University of Washington.

Nate Brown is a writer and editor whose stories, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in One Story, the Iowa Review, LitHub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publisher’s Weekly, Electric Literature, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is the editor-at-large of the award-winning literary journal American Short Fiction and a senior lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.

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