Minor Black Figures

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Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor 'One of the most accomplished, important novelists of his generation' Guardian 'Taylor has both a classic sensibility, expansive and elegant, and a razor-sharp ability to speak to the contemporary moment' Emma Cline Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He's struggling with his portrait painting, unable to truly capture the life of his subjects. Then he meets Keating, a white former priest struggling with his faith. The two couldn't be more different, and yet Keating shows Wyeth how to see the world anew. As the hot summer progresses, filled with art openings, walks around the city, and Wyeth's search for a long forgotten Black artist, Wyeth and Keating must decide what they are willing to risk - for art and for love. A page-turning New York novel and a sweeping modern romance, Minor Black Figures is an involving and tender portrait of loneliness and connection. 'Taylor is fast emerging as one of America's most shrewdest cultural voices' Telegraph

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Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a US bestseller, was awarded the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He tweets at @blgtylr, where he has 90k followers, and his newsletter can be found at- blgtylr.substack.com.