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A review by outoftheofficeagain
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
4.0
Brandon Taylor has done it again! Thank you so much Penguin Random House and Riverhead Books for sending me a paperback copy of The Late Americans.
This is such a mix of the arts, twenty-something life, politics, socio-economic struggles, grief, race, the nuance of experience and empathy between friends and how messy that can be, how hard we can fail at it. I underlines so many astute observations Taylor was able to make and the ways in which you could, through that, feel empathy and frustration at the same time. You felt as if you might be in these friend groups, at the edge, observing their struggles and triumphs, and learning alongside them.
The novel has a very tender feeling, which is impressive since it’s philosophical at times and intelligent throughout. I found things I had wrestled with in my own experience of the world, and some things not so familiar. I loved the passages about money, the use of animals for consumption, and how people don’t belong to other people (a sentiment I’ve often said aloud).
Really great, maybe my favorite work of his, and so pleased to have finally read it.
This is such a mix of the arts, twenty-something life, politics, socio-economic struggles, grief, race, the nuance of experience and empathy between friends and how messy that can be, how hard we can fail at it. I underlines so many astute observations Taylor was able to make and the ways in which you could, through that, feel empathy and frustration at the same time. You felt as if you might be in these friend groups, at the edge, observing their struggles and triumphs, and learning alongside them.
The novel has a very tender feeling, which is impressive since it’s philosophical at times and intelligent throughout. I found things I had wrestled with in my own experience of the world, and some things not so familiar. I loved the passages about money, the use of animals for consumption, and how people don’t belong to other people (a sentiment I’ve often said aloud).
Really great, maybe my favorite work of his, and so pleased to have finally read it.