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Real Life by Brandon Taylor is Trending at the Library
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If you enjoyed it, or if you're waiting for it, try one of these great read-alikes!
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Call me by your name
by André Aciman
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.
Available on Overdrive and in Print (English & Spanish)
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What belongs to you
by Garth Greenwell
When he drawn by hunger, loneliness and risk embarks on a sexual relationship with a young hustler, an American teacher discovers that desire has far-reaching consequences when the unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in force him to grapple with his own fraught history and that of his lover, with whom he is obsessed.
Available on Overdrive
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A little life : a novel
by Hanya Yanagihara
Moving to New York to pursue creative ambitions, four former classmates share decades marked by love, loss, addiction and haunting elements from a brutal childhood. By the author of The People in the Trees.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Indignation
by Philip Roth
In 1951 America, during the Korean War, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his father's fears about the potential dangers facing his son by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College, where he confronts the confusing customs and constrictions of a different world. Reprint. A best-selling New York Times Notable Book.
Available on Overdrive
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The nix
by Nathan Hill
Astonished to see the mother who abandoned him in childhood throwing rocks at a presidential candidate, a bored college professor struggles to reconcile the media depictions of his mother with his memories.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Speak no evil : a novel
by Uzodinma Iweala
An Ivy League-bound star athlete from a prestigious private school in Washington, D.C., and his best friend, the daughter of prominent government insiders, struggle with brutal responses to the young man's sexual orientation before finding themselves speeding toward a violent and senseless future. By an award-winning author.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Invisible
by Paul Auster
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and a student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker is caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
Available on Overdrive
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Shuggie Bain : a novel
by Douglas Stuart
A young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. A first novel.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The new wilderness : a novel
by Diane Cook
A first novel by the author of Man V. Nature finds a desperate mother in a world ravaged by climate change joining a hunter-gatherer initiative to test humanity's capacity to survive in the wilderness without destroying it.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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This mournable body : a novel
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
The protagonist of Nervous Conditions struggles to make a life for herself in Harare, Zimbabwe, eventually taking an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead, leading to an unforgivable betrayal.
Available on Overdrive
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