Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Real Life by Brandon TaylorSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE 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 thats a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didnt go back for the funeral, and he hasnt told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self preservation, he has become used to keeping

superficially very ordinary

Court Jester

its biodiversity

Hannah Kent's Burial Rites was shortlisted for The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

Hurricane Season

and what Nietzsche and Montaigne (among others) have to tell us about resilience and courage

Will he ever get back to the family tree

and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come

distance and silence through a series of letters spanning twenty years

exceptional museums

it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale

The airitech was a mysterious creature whose three daughters took on the shape of werewolves and who were all slaughtered by the warrior Cas Corach