"In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are"--

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Praise for The Late Americans

"The Late Americansis Brandon Taylor's best book so far. . . . For all their disagreements and misunderstandings and incompatibilities, [his characters are] all attempting to make peace with the cosmic bêtise of existence, to figure out how to live without compromising everything they value. It's beautiful and wrenching to watch them try." --Charles Arrowsmith,Boston Globe

"Erudite, intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth's promise, of the quest to find one's tribe and one's calling." --Leigh Haber,Oprah Daily

"Brandon Taylor's third book is the most dazzling example of his sharp pen and keen observations of human nature yet.. . .Taylor develops his characters so precisely, they feel like close friends: recognizable, sometimes infuriating, and always worth following to the book's last page."--Harper's Bazaar

"Exquisitely sensitive . . . with flashes of beauty." --The New York Times

"WithThe Late Americans, Taylor has at once deepened and moved beyond the traditional campus novel. . . . Taylor's empathy for his characters is bone-deep. . . . [A] bruising, brilliant second novel." --Washington Post Book World

"A delicious read." --Brittany Luse, NPR

"Compelling in its determination to capture the tenderness of aspiring artists, their desperate ambition and crushing uncertainty. . . .The Late Americansis remarkable. If you're going to write about art, the folly of pursuing it and the irrefutable power of it, you should probably do it well. Taylor does it truthfully and beautifully." --Financial Times

"A beautiful writer. His tautly constructed sentences are as concrete and vivid as the poems that the hapless Seamus adores."
--Associated Press

"The Late Americanschronicles these young people's brawl for truth and understanding in their interpersonal relationships . . . and manages to turn the chaos into something beautiful. . . . We sit, enthralled by Taylor's prose and immersed in his character's stories, witnesses to the complexity of truth and its resistance against objectivity." --Brooklyn Rail

"I love this book. It's such a brilliant evocation of life. And Brandon Taylor is a great novelist." --Bill Goldstein, NBC-TV

"The Late Americansis a compelling, clever, funny, structurally audacious book of relentless psychological acuity, emotional resonance and technical control, and reconfirms Brandon Taylor as one of the preeminent American authors of his generation." --Colin Barrett, Hazlitt

"Taylor's elegant works of fiction . . . keep a tight focus on their characters, like a magnifying glass. . . . Taylor's vision is unsparing, but never bleak. . . . He has a Chekhovian generosity that enables him to convey character with something like tenderness." --Harper's Magazine

"Deftly directed by Taylor, characters swim in and out of the story, exploring a lived-in symphony of questions about what it means to make art, love truthfully, and live morally. . . . [His] novels are so big--they contain the world." --Esquire

"[An] intense, finely tuned book. Taylor is an inimitable talent."--Elle

"Provocative . . . Through Taylor's signature intimacy, we see casual emotional devastation, prickly social interactions, and wry humor with keen clarity."--Vulture

"Brandon Taylor takes a new spin and reimagines the classic friend getaway with queer characters. . . . Contemporary readers will love this provocative but intimate novel about friendships, ambition, and community."--Cosmopolitan

"Finely rendered." --Vanity Fair

"A stunning work of fiction, with characters that are unforgettable and writing that is frequently breathtaking. I can't shout its praises enough."--David Vogel, Buzzfeed

"Elegant and restrained."--Vox

"I love the way Taylor captures the charged spaces that exist between friends and lovers. . . . I also appreciated the way that the constellated form of the novel pushed subtly against the logic of scarcity that dominates the lives of its characters. No matter how alone they feel, we encounter them embedded in one another's stories." --Jewish Currents

"Anyone who's ever struggled to find themselves while so many around them are doing the same (hello, everyone's early 20s) will find kinship in this novel."--Good Housekeeping

"The Late Americansweaves throughout perspectives of its cast of characters, creating a story you'll be thinking about long after you put it down."--Town & Country

"A searing, layered examination of found family, gender, queerness, class, and artistry,The Late Americansis the perfect read for all the messy gay twenty-somethings in your life." --Them

"[An] insightful and razor-sharp portrait of the interconnected lives of a cohort of writers, dancers, and thinkers living in the contemporary American Midwest. . . . A splendidly wrought and emotionally engrossing novel [that] continues to cement Brandon Taylor as a standout literary voice."--Shelf Awareness

"Taylor's characters come to life . . . through scenes cut with razor-sharp observations. . . . With verve and wit, Taylor pulls off something like Sally Rooney for the Midwest."--Publishers Weekly