Description: Explore award-worthy books with these two Booker Prize Shortlisted novels! Real Life is an exquisite 2020 debut novel about the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, Wallance has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, he has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community.
In The Secret Scripture, Roseanne McNulty nearing her one-hundredth birthday faces an uncertain future as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates.
Consists of: Real Life (Like New), The Secret Scripture (Well Read)
