Real Life: A NovelA FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A blistering coming of age story O: The Oprah Magazine A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. Almost 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

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a tiny raft

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her unfinished novel and the conflicting feelings involved in love and betrayal

their capacity for murder and war

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the antihero of Camus’s classic novel

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