Real Life By Brandon Taylor at Life

Real Life By Brandon Taylor. He writes so powerfully about so many things—the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need. The intimate prose of brandon taylor’s exquisite debut novel, real life, offers exactly that kind of writing.

The intimate prose of brandon taylor’s exquisite debut novel, real life, offers exactly that kind of writing. We follow wallace, a gay, black biochemistry postgraduate student, who reacts to suffering by continually. Brandon taylor is the author of the acclaimed novel real life , which has been shortlisted for the booker prize, longlisted for the center for fiction first novel prize, and been named a new york times book review editors’ choice.

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In real life, that question is transposed onto a university campus in alabama. Having left his home in the south, a place where he experienced abuse and discrimination of his sexuality, he tries to survive in his predominantly white university where. We follow wallace, a gay, black biochemistry postgraduate student, who reacts to suffering by continually. He writes so powerfully about so many things—the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need.