Real Life, Paperback/Brandon Taylor

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A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE "A blistering coming of age story" -- O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times , The Washington Post , New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle , NPR, The Guardian , The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar , Financial Times , Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes & Noble, Vulture , Thrillist , VICE, SELF, Electric Literature, and Shelf Awareness A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it's ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost. About author(s): Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Lit Hub . He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction.