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    "description": "<b>A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE<br><br>A&#160;<i>NEW YORK TIMES</i>&#160;EDITORS' CHOICE</b> <br><b><br>&ldquo;A blistering coming of age story&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;<i>O: The Oprah Magazine</i></b> <br><br><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by&#160;<i>The New York Times</i>,&#160;<i>The Washington Post</i>,&#160;New York Public Library, <i>Vanity Fair,&#160;Elle</i>, NPR,&#160;<i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The Paris Review,&#160;Harper's Bazaar</i>,&#160;<i>Financial Times</i>, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes &amp; Noble,&#160;<i>Vulture</i>,&#160;<i>Thrillist</i>, VICE, SELF, Electric Literature, and Shelf Awareness<br><br>A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.<br></b> <br>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 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&mdash;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. &#160;<br> &#160;<br> <i>Real Life</i> is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it&rsquo;s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.",
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