Real Life

✍ Scribed by Brandon Taylor

• Book ID: 110536294
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 349 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780525538905

✦ Synopsis

Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Entertainment Weekly , Electric Literature ,The Rumpus ,Paste, Bookriot , and Library Journal.
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.
A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. 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 a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden...