{"product_id":"real-life-a-novel-1","title":"Real Life: A Novel","description":"A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU\/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award\n\n“A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah Magazine\n\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, Self, Electric Literature, and Shelf Awareness\n\nA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.\n\nAlmost 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 and 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.\n\nReal 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0525538895\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0525538895.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Taylor, Brandon\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41458235703354,"sku":"DBV.0525538895.A","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0525538895-0_b03cbffe-abff-42b7-983f-0d06e3376c96.jpg?v=1781129191","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/real-life-a-novel-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}