Real Life

A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award    “A blistering coming of age story” — O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of the Year by  The New York Times ,  The Washington Post , New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle , NPR,  The Guardian , The Paris