{"product_id":"real-life-by-brandon-taylor","title":"Real Life by Brandon Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReal 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44104283684938,"sku":"6952ap","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6952ap.jpg?v=1787624799","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/real-life-by-brandon-taylor","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}