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Brandon Taylor: Real life (Hardcover, 2020, Riverhead Books) 4 stars

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, …

this book made me sad, but i still loved it

5 stars

not a light hearted read, and i empathized with a lot of what went on in it (perhaps too much? 🙃) and learned, at least a little bit, about the difficulties of navigating a racist world as a non-white person