Alejandro Varela Middle Spoon: A Novel Hardback Book

Middle Spoon subverts the ordinary novel with intelligence and vulnerability... Varela has made a sly, analytical opera of the heart. Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less and Less Is Lost. A rollicking delight!... Varela asks provocative questions about the shape of family and the nature of love. Ada Calhoun, New York Times bestselling author of Crush. One of TODAYs 50 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2025. 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, hes 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 reveals the rawness of infatuation while reimagining what relationships, marriage, and family life can look like. Alejandro Varela boldly probes the corners of society in desperate need of changefrom taboos around intimacy to the shortcomings of Oscar season, pop culture, and glutenfree foodoffering a surprising perspective on the tangled dynamics that shape our lives. Equal parts heartwrenching and... | Alejandro Varela Middle Spoon: A Novel Hardback Book