Real Life by Brandon Taylor

£9.99

Booker Prize 2020 Shortlist

Bookseller review by Elle: 

‘This is a character-focused campus novel centering around Wallace – a black, queer biochemistry student in a Midwestern University town. It’s a novel that touches on themes of race, sexuality, and trauma but in a way that feels incredibly authentic and real. A beautifully and carefully constructed narrative set over a matter of days, the prose is intimate and powerful in a way that feels quiet and understated. ‘

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Wallace is a biochemistry grad student at a lakeside Midwestern university used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. His class is the first in more than three decades to include a black student, something Wallace has not been allowed to forget. But, over the course of one weekend at the end of summer, a series of confrontations with colleagues and an unexpected shift in his relationship with a friend, Miller, force him to grapple with intimacy, desire, the trauma of the past and the question of the future.

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