Lit in Translation

Real Life

Real Life

Brandon Taylor (born 1989)

English editions

Written in English

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Wallace, a Black, gay and introverted student from Alabama, is in the fourth year of a biochemistry programme at a lakeside university in the Midwest. He has spent the summer raising tiny nematodes for his research. His father has recently died; Wallace skipped the funeral and has said nothing about it to his friends, a group in which some are couples and some men act straight. Over one windy end-of-summer weekend someone ruins his experiment, he clashes with colleagues, and a night with a supposedly straight white classmate brings hostility and desire into the open, forcing Wallace to reckon with what happened to him and what lies ahead.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
United States
First published
2020
Author's age
31 when first published
ISBN

9780525538882 (Riverhead Books, United States)

9781911547747 (Daunt Books, United Kingdom)

9780525538899 (Riverhead Books, United States)

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