{"product_id":"the-people-who-report-more-stress","title":"The People Who Report More Stress - Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2023 - \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly, Electric Literature, \u003c\/i\u003eChicago Public Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STORY PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alejandro Varela’s \u003ci\u003eThe People Who Report More Stress: Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis a master class in analyzing the unspoken.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esearing collection about gentrification, racism, and sexuality.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(Starred Review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe People Who Report More Stress \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxieties of people who retreat into themselves while living in the margins, acutely aware of the stresses that modern life takes upon the body and the body politic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “Midtown-West Side Story,” Álvaro, a restaurant worker struggling to support his family, begins selling high-end designer clothes to his co-workers, friends, neighbors, and the restaurant’s regulars in preparation for a move to the suburbs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Man in 512” tracks Manny, the childcare worker for a Swedish family, as he observes the comings and goings of an affluent co-op building, all the while teaching the children Spanish through Selena’s music catalog.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Comrades” follows a queer man with radical politics who just ended a long-term relationship and is now on the hunt for a life partner. With little tolerance for political moderates, his series of speed dates devolve into awkward confrontations that leave him wondering if his approach is the correct one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of humorous, sexy, and highly neurotic tales about parenting, long-term relationships, systemic and interpersonal racism, and class conflict from the author of the National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Town of Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe People Who Report More Stress\u003c\/i\u003e deftly and poignantly expresses the frustration of knowing the problems and solutions to our society’s inequities but being unable to do anything about them.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50952173158688,"sku":"9781662601071","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781662601071.jpg?v=1763653275","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-people-who-report-more-stress","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}