![]() ![]() Despite being old enough to have made it to graduate school, Wallace does not seem to be fully mature. A variety of triggers and traumas are woven into Wallace’s existence, but he encounters each of them with resignation. The layers of Wallace’s life are so thoroughly crafted that the overall gravity of his situation seems to sneak up on the reader. In this “campus novel,” the main character, Wallace, is a gay Black graduate student studying nematodes, who we follow through a particularly troubling weekend as he and his friends prepare for the fall semester. ![]() Brandon Taylor’s debut novel Real Lifeprecisely captures both the dreamy atmosphere and gritty competitiveness of graduate school with stunning grace, and it went on to become a finalist for the 2020 Booker Prize after its original February 2020 hardcover release. ![]()
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