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Real Life: A Novel
Brandon TaylorBrandon Taylor’s deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire & overcoming pain, deftly zooms in & out of focus.
"Taylor proves himself to be a keen observer of the psychology of not just trauma, but its repercussions: how private suffering can ricochet from one person to injure those caught in his path..." - Jenny O. Harris, The New York Times Book Review
Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is studying for a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, he has kept a distance even from his own friends - some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness.
His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn’t go back for the funeral, & he hasn’t told any of his friends. Instead, Wallace has spent all summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. Self-preservation requires distance. Over the course of one end-of-summer weekend, however, the destruction of his work & a series of confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past & the question of the future.
‘This debut is a fresh take on the age-old ‘campus novel’ tradition, providing a deeply painful, nuanced account of microaggressions, abuse, racism, homophobia, trauma, grief & alienation. We admired the vivid ways the book evokes daily, repetitive action as well as memory & fantasy to get at its profound central question: what is ‘real life’ anyway?’ - 2020 Booker Prize Judges
Brandon Taylor was born in Alabama in the US in June 1989. He is the senior editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading & a staff writer at Literary Hub. His writing has earned him fellowships from Lambda Literary Foundation, Kimbilio Fiction, & the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop. Real Life is his first novel.
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