{"product_id":"real-life","title":"Real Life","description":"A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.\n\nAlmost 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.\n\nReal Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1911547747\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1911547747.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Taylor, Brandon\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52918564094239,"sku":"PKV.1911547747.G","price":4.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1911547747-0.jpg?v=1790182758","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/real-life","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}