Taylor, Brandon

Real life / Brandon Taylor. - 327 pages ; 22 cm

"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 bio-chem 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 currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community"--

ISBN: 9780525538882 0525538887 9780525538899

LCCN: 2019022438

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American gay men--Fiction.
Graduate students--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6