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The National Book Award finalist illustrates the fallacy of American social mobility in “The People Who Report More Stress”

Interviews Alejandro Varela on Why Gay Sex Doesn’t Make You Queer The National Book Award finalist illustrates the fallacy of American social mobility in “The People Who Report More Stress” Photo by ryoji__iwata via Unsplash Apr 11, 2023 Christopher Gonzalez Share article Share article “A disconsolate brown man in an unabashedly gentrified neighborhood is the beginning of a below-the-fold news item,” thinks Eduardo, the central character in Alejandro Varela’s new collection of interconnected stories, The People Who Report More Stress . He is sitting on a park bench, just moments after an emoti

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