<b>A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION</b><br><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE <br><br>A <i>LIBRARY JOURNAL </i>AND <i>PUBLISHER''S WEEKLY</i> "BEST BOOK OF 2022"</b><br><br><b>ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 – <i>BuzzFeed</i>, <i>LitHub</i>, <i>Electric Literature</i>, <i>LGBTQ Reads</i>, Latinx in Publishing</b><i><br></i><br><b>*Recommended by </b><i><b>The New York Times*</b></i><br><b><br>"Haunting, sublime, solemn, and true." —Robert Jones Jr., author of </b><i>The Prophets</i><br><br><b>"[An] intense, astute meditation on race, family, class, love, and friendship." —Deesha Philyaw, author of </b><i>The Secret Lives of Church Ladies</i><br><br>In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excus