![]() These so-called friends, after all, are guilty of shades of aggression from micro to macro, and none ever come to his defense. He could make more of an effort to hang, he knows, but given his peers’ casual displays of prejudice, projection and general lack of awareness, it’s easy to understand why he’s wary. But as the only black person among this clique of academics, he maintains an uneasiness around the group, keeping largely to himself. Still, he chooses to celebrate the last weekend of summer with friends from his program. Wallace finds himself stressed by the discovery that his experiment, breeding nematode worms, has been ruined by mold we wonder, perhaps, if it was the work of a saboteur. The novel unfolds over three long days spent in and out of the lab, diving into the daily indignities Wallace faces in a quietly toxic environment. ![]() ![]() In Brandon Taylor’s highly-anticipated novel Real Life, protagonist Wallace - Southern, black and gay - has left behind his family and their fraught shared history to pursue graduate studies in biochemistry at a predominantly white Midwestern university. ![]()
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