"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. 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. 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. There, he gained a reputation for himself as a prankster and a rogue. Brando was then sent to Shattuck Military Academy, one of the top boarding schools in the Midwest. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. Brando was better known for his violent tendencies at school and was eventually expelled from Libertyville High School for riding his motorcycle through the halls. A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Īlmost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree.
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