The Doorman BIPOC If the architecture

If the architecture

this is a story told with startling beauty and intensity

the parts of you that can’t remain hidden

with all-too-rare empathy

will keeping it a secret mean the end of everything he's built with Yael/Elle

The Doorman BIPOC If the architectureBy: Reinaldo Arenas Reinaldo Arenas is the most highly acclaimed writer of Cubas post revolutionary generation. The Doorman, his first work set in the United States, breaks new ground with the extraordinary and tragic story of Juan, a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building in Manhattan. Oddly alienated from the tenants, Juan finds himself being seduced by their petsa bear, a rattlesnake, an orangutan, goldfish, cats,