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Real Life
A Literary Fiction Novel by Brandon Taylor
Subgenres:
- Campus Novel,
- LGBTQ+ Fiction,
- Coming-of-Age
This book is for you if you're into...
- Intense campus novels with fraught friend groups and hidden tensions
- Stories centering queer Black protagonists navigating mostly white spaces
- Slow-burn narratives where buried hurts simmer beneath everyday interactions
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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