![]() ![]() ![]() He notes the “tasteless, strained, diluted flavor of white people food.” “Microaggression” is a term anyone paying attention to race and gender issues in America has heard, but in this flinty debut novel, there’s nothing micro about them, as when a Machiavellian female colleague who may be sabotaging Wallace’s experiments tells him that “I have to prove myself because you and men like you are always counting me out" and then goes on a dizzying bender of benighted cultural appropriation. His friends are white so are his colleagues. Having just arrived from Alabama, Wallace has a lot of whiteness to adjust to. He’d also like some semblance of a relationship with Miller to work out, never having had a boyfriend before meanwhile, Miller isn’t certain he’s gay. Wallace is a graduate student in the Midwest, desperate for his genetic experiments on nematodes to be successful. A young gay black man comes of age at a moment when American culture feels bitter and closefisted. ![]()
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