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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE ELLE OPRAH DAILY THE WASHINGTON POST BUZZFEED AND VULTURE

Erudite intimate hilarious poignant Agorgeously written novel of youths promise of the quest to find ones tribe and ones callingLeigh Haber Oprah Daily

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

InthesharedandprivatespacesofIowaCitya loosecircleoflovers and friends encounter confront and provoke one another in a volatile year of selfdiscovery 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 didnt 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 foodservice kitchens of the city sometimes to violent and electrifying consequence Finally as each prepares for an uncertain future the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former livesa moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered

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 It is Brandon Taylors richest and most involving work of fiction to date confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of contemporary life