Real Life: A Novel

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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black an d queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. 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 over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds and at what cost. Product details Publisher: Riverhead Books (February 16, 2021) Language:: English Paperback: 336 pages ISBN-10: 0525538895 ISBN-13: 978-0525538899 Item Weight: 9.6 ounces Dimensions : 5.13 x 0.81 x 8 inches Show more