The Late Americans A Novel by Brandon Taylor

The Booker Prize finalist and widely acclaimed author of Real Life and Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads 

“Erudite, intimate, hilarious, poignant... A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise, of the quest to find one’s tribe and one’s calling.”  -  Leigh Haber, Oprah Daily 

In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who “didn’t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.”

These four are buffeted by a cast of artists, landlords, meatpacking workers, and mathematicians who populate the cafes, classrooms, and food-service kitchens of the city, sometimes to violent and electrifying consequences. Finally, as each prepares for an uncertain future, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives—a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered. 

"Bruising, brilliant... Campus novels and starving-artist stories aren’t uncommon. But Taylor... observes this milieu with fresh eyes, exploring how the social, sexual and creative threads in his characters’ lives interweave or snag... He writes about sex beautifully, how it fuels everyone’s egos and reveals their anxieties..."  -  Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post

A novel of friendship and chosen family, The Late Americans asks fresh questions about love and sex, ambition and precarity, and about how human beings can bruise one another while trying to find themselves. 

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