A review by tarrowood
Real Life by Brandon Taylor

5.0

BT brutalizes the readers of Real Life with heavy emotions that are practically palpable. Real Life is more than the words on the page, and it even offers a complexity to the level of Virginia Woolf — which it alludes to. The main character, Wallace, radiates as a symbol similar to that of Job, as he must live a life of emotional and mental agony. I will not forget anytime soon, either, the imagery and symbolism of birds in the novel: birds offer a third-person perspective of life, looking down on us, putting us in a perspective WITH others, rather than allowing us to view others through our own self...