Real Life
A Novel
by Brandon Taylor
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in Lgbtq and Fiction.
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 "A blistering coming of age story" O: The Oprah MagazineNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post,...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Lgbtq and Fiction.
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Nilofer Merchant
“I?m a sucker for most booklists but this one is chockfull of amazeballs goodies. Highly (highly) recommend reading The Real Life. Hood feminism is still in reading pile. Not on this list but just out in paperback is Liz Plank?s For the Love of Men. | I’m a sucker for most booklists but this one is chockfull of amazeballs goodies. Highly (highly) recommend reading The Real Life. Hood feminism is still in reading pile. Not on this list but just out in paperback is Liz Plank’s For the Love of Men.”
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