"Iowa was a kind of cultural winter," Brandon Taylor writes in The Late Americans, describing a midwestern college town. "They had all come to this speck of a city in the middle of a middle state in order to study art, to hone themselves and their ideas like perfect, terrifying weapons, and in the monastic kind of deprivation they found here, they turned to one another." Welcome to the scholastic surroundings of Taylor's second novel, in which a coterie of young bohemians studying at The University of Iowa collide across fault lines of intimacy, class, and purpose. |
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