![]() ![]() From four years of Wallace’s postgraduate study, he extracts a single weekend, isolates it, and slides it under the microscope. Taylor approaches Real Life with similar precision. We follow Wallace, a gay, black biochemistry postgraduate student, who reacts to suffering by continually minimising himself, as if attempting to shrink himself into the microscopic company of the nematodes he works with in his lab, which day in and day out he observes, cultivates, and then, beheads. ” Job 7:3.īrandon Taylor’s stunning debut opens with an epigraph from the explicitly theodical book of Job, the oldest historical text to seriously question: why do good men suffer? In Real Life, that question is transposed onto a university campus in Alabama. ![]() “I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. ![]()
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