5/18/2023 0 Comments Brandon taylor new book![]() ![]() Every chapter leaves you feeling something unnameable that feels almost like sadness, a tiny bit like emptiness, and sort of like passion, too. Real Life describes itself as “a novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy.” Those are good words to describe this story, but they aren’t enough. Miller’s eyes widen just so, and Wallace holds his breath until the table and the cup and the whole world steady themselves. Wallace puts his elbows on the table, which rocks sharply, dangerously. 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. 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. ![]() 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. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Īlmost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. ![]()
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