Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Long list Ed for the 2020 Booker Prize a new York Times editors’ Choice a guardian summer reading choice ‘a new kind of campus novel… Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir.’ — The New Yorker ‘a tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race.’ — Cole tóibín, author of Brooklyn Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern University, a life that’s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago,