by Brandon Taylor
I found this a very hard read.
It started well enough in a lab developing nematodes but this is only the background to the story of a black man in a postgraduate school that is predominately white. He is also gay and a victim of child abuse. The gay sex was difficult but what I really struggled with was the violence of all his encounters. The writing is good but this was not my type of story. As such it may well win the Booker this year 6/10
