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Penguin Books🎧 Watch Alejandro Varela (@drovarela) explain how he brought humor to anxiety in his novel, MIDDLE SPOON 💕🥄 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. 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, he’s left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible. If you've ever had to nurse a broken heart, gone down an overthinking spiral, or grapple with love at its messiest, then you need to read MIDDLE SPOON ❤️🩹
On the profile · Sep 21, 2026