MIDDLE SPOON

Eddie Lopez provides the perfect voice for this witty, heartfelt epistolary novel. Lopez captures the spiraling anxiety, intense self-reflection, and endless intellectualizing of the unnamed narrator. In the midst of his first big heartbreak, he wonders if the perfect polyamorous life he thought he was building with his husband, two kids, and boyfriend was just an illusion. In an attempt to process his problems, he composes long emails to his ex-boyfriend, Ben. He also sends them to his two therapists. Lopez captures the tone of these emails, which are, by turns, snarky, cynical, pleading, angry, vulnerable, and obfuscating. The protagonist's fresh voice carries the novel, and Lopez beautifully translates this to audio. A charming listen about the messy possibilities of contemporary queer love. L.S. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2025]