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Real Life, A Novel, Brandon Taylor

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Real Life, A Novel, Brandon Taylor

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eng

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fiction

Main title

Real Life

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1141078672

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Brandon Taylor

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A Novel

Summary

Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, BuzzFeed, and more. 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

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