| Author |
Taylor, Brandon |
| Year |
2020 |
| First published |
2020 |
| Publisher |
New York: Riverhead / Random House Penguin |
| Number of pages |
329 |
| Edition |
First US Hardcover |
| ISBN |
9780525538882 |
| Keywords |
literary or mainstream, scientist main character, minority (race, disability), USA or Canada, biochemistry, biology, ambition/recognition of scientists, minorities in science, academic science |
Abstract
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern
university town where he is working uneasily toward a PhD in biochemistry. 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.
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