The author of the Booker Prize finalistReal Lifeand the bestsellingFilthy Animalsreturns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads

InthesharedandprivatespacesofIowaCity,a loosecircleoflovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. At the groups center are Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicates her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who didnt seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection. These three are buffeted by a cast of poets, artists, landlords, meat-packing workers, and mathematicians who populate the cafes, classrooms, and food-service kitchens of Iowa City, sometimes to violent and electrifying consequence. Finally, as each prepares for an uncertain future, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former livesa moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.

A novel of intimacy and precarity, friendship and chosen family,The Late Americansis Brandon Taylors richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of contemporary life.

Brandon Tayloris the author ofReal Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named aNew York Times Book ReviewEditors Choice, and of the national bestsellerFilthy Animals,for which he won The Story Prize and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction.

• Publisher:Riverhead Books (May 23, 2023)
• Language:English
• Hardcover:320 pages
• ISBN-10:0593332334
• ISBN-13:9780593332337
• Item Weight:1 pounds
• Dimensions:5.5 x 0.81 x 8.25 inches