These three are buffeted by a cast of poets, artists, landlords, meat-packing workers and mathematicians who populate the cafés, classrooms and food-service kitchens of Iowa City, sometimes to violent and electrifying consequence.
At the group’s centre are Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor and Noah, who ‘didn’t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.’
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Brandon Taylor returns with his richest and most involving work of fiction to date, a novel of intimacy and precarity, friendship and chosen family, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of contemporary life.
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