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Real Life by Brandon Taylor

A finalist for the Booker Prize, this beautifully written, debut novel tells the story of Wallace, a black gay biochemistry graduate student questioning his future at an unnamed Midwestern university, with impressive emotional delicacy. Set over a single weekend, confrontations with several of his white colleagues and a sexual encounter with an ostensibly straight friend force Wallace to drop his guard and examine his turbulent past.

Richard, Breakwater Books, Guilford