Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life thats a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didnt go back for the funeral, and he hasnt told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.

Deftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2020
Publisher: Daunt Books
Pages: 336
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781911547747
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