Town of Babylon

A gay Latino returns home to the suburbs for a high school reunion and encounters key people from his past. Narrator alternates between 1st person to describe scenes and 3rd person to analyze social inequities. After a while, it feels a little like the kind of defensive writing people do on social media: it’s not enough to tell a story; you have to demonstrate your grasp of the conditions that led to it.

A remarkable peek beneath the layers of everyday life suffused with critical perspectives on what it means to be Latinx, queer, poor, and so many other things.