Middle Spoon
“Middle Spoon subverts the ordinary novel with intelligence and vulnerability. . . . Varela has made a sly, analytical opera of the heart.”
—Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
A whipsmart, blazingly funny novel about heartbreak, unconventional love, and the way society could be, from National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela
Coming Sept 9, 2025
Other books by Alejandro Varela
The Town of Babylon
A debut novel about suburban decline, following Andrés, a public health professor who returns to his hometown and confronts a past he thought he’d left behind long ago.
Finalist for the 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
★ “Dazzling debut... an incandescent bildungsroman"
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The People Who
Report More Stress
A collection of humorous, sexy, and highly-neurotic tales examining issues of parenting, systemic and interpersonal racism, and class conflict in gentrified Brooklyn.
Long-listed for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize, The Story Prize, and the International Latino Book Awards
Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Books of 2023
“A master class in analyzing the unspoken.”
—The New York Times