Real Life

$26.00

SKU: 9780525538882 Category:
Author: Taylor, Brandon
Publication Date: 02/18/2020
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Binding: Hardcover
Media: Book
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Description

“A blistering coming of age story” O: The Oprah Magazine

 

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.