Real Life

Name: Real Life
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781911547747
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By Brandon Taylor

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Summary

Real Life by Brandon Taylor follows Wallace, a Black graduate student navigating life in a predominantly white Midwestern university. Over a summer weekend filled with emotional confrontations and introspections, Wallace grapples with friendship tensions, identity struggles, and past traumas. The story poignantly explores themes of belonging, vulnerability, and the complexities of human connection.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to introspective stories exploring themes of identity, belonging, and the complexities of academia. It offers a poignant look into the experiences of a young, queer Black man navigating friendships and racial tensions in a predominantly white university setting.

Real Life

An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice.

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Real Life follows Wallace, who has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms—a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, living a life that feels a world away from his childhood in Alabama.

Although his father died a few weeks ago, Wallace has neither gone back home nor told his friends—Miller, Yngve, Cole, and Emma. To protect himself, he has grown accustomed to maintaining a wary distance, even from those closest to him.

Over one blustery end-of-summer weekend, a catastrophic mishap and a series of intense confrontations compel Wallace to confront intimacy, desire, the trauma of his past, and the question of his future.

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Real Life by Brandon Taylor has been widely praised for its introspective and nuanced exploration of identity, race, and sexuality. Critics have highlighted the book’s beautifully crafted prose and insightful portrayal of its protagonist's struggles within the confines of academic and social environments. The emotional depth and authenticity of character development have resonated strongly with readers, marking it as a compelling and thought-provoking read.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781911547747

Publisher: Daunt Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 July 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Daunt Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His writing has earned him fellowships from Lambda Literary Foundation, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction.

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