He writes so powerfully about so many things-the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need. Wallace, the man at the center of this novel, is written with such nuance and tenderness and complexity. He is closed unto himself but wanting to open to others even though the people around him may not be fully up to the task. And there is a sharp undercurrent of the erotic throughout. The way Taylor writes about bodies in the physical world is one of the highlights in a novel full of highlights. Truly, this is stunning work from a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways. ✧ find this review & others on my blog ✧ This review would be a lot easier to write if Brandon Taylor weren’t so damn good. It seemed almost to beckon me like a half-curled hand, and when I finished reading it, I sat in the state of suspension that often comes over me at the end of a particularly good book, the sense of coming slowly back to awareness of the world outside my mind, and finding it echoing with a harrowing quiet that wasn’ ✧ find this review & others on my blog ✧ “ Real Life” was like a crush, an obsession, a compulsion. This review would be a lot easier to write if Brandon Taylor weren’t so damn good.
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