![]() Over the following two days, Wallace and Miller awkwardly begin a secret, volatile sexual relationship with troubling violence between them at its margins. ![]() Wallace is perpetually ill at ease with his white friends and labmates, especially surly Miller, who unexpectedly admits a sexual interest in Wallace. ![]() He discloses to them the recent death of his estranged father, who did not protect him from sexual abuse by a family friend as a child. Though distraught and facing tedious work, he reluctantly meets up with friends from his program to celebrate the last weekend of summer. Wallace, a biochemistry student from Alabama at an unnamed contemporary Midwestern university, discovers his experiment involving breeding nematodes ruined by contaminating mold. ![]() Taylor’s intense, introspective debut tackles the complicated desires of a painfully introverted gay black graduate student over the course of a tumultuous weekend. ![]()
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