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Real Life, by Brandon Taylor (2020) | PEW FTLC SUMMER BOOK CLUB 2024: THE CAMPUS NOVEL
Date and Time
Friday, July 26, 2024 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Location
Virtual
Description
The campus novel is a subgenre of fiction spotlighting the human comedy of academic life. Wherever you are—at the beach, overseas, in your office toiling away--join us Fridays in July 3:00-4:00pm in Zoom to talk about a book. Register for one or as many discussions as you like, and FTLC will send you the print or audio version, your choice. Please register only for the book(s) you will meet to discuss. Open to all GVSU faculty and staff.
Real Life, by Brandon Taylor (2020):
"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—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."
This event has been tagged as book, club, ftlc, pew, and summer.
Contact
Name: David Eick
Email: [email protected]