A review by aehmyers
Real Life by Brandon Taylor

emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If you have sat across from a group of people and realized, with a widening abyss in your chest, that your fullness will never be welcomed and understood in that space, then you will resonate with this book. It is heartbreakingly lonely. It punched me in the gut and I thanked it for the time. Don’t expect resolution. The tenuous space between being known and being unknowable, the pain of being knowable but having no one that will put in the effort, of seeking to be known and both getting hurt and hurting others in the process… all this exists indefinitely. 
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