TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Brandon
TI  - Real life
SN  - 9780525538882
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - African American gay men
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Graduate students
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bildungsromans
N2  - "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 biochem 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"--
ER  -