320 pages | paperback |NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BYVOGUE,ELLE, OPRAH DAILY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BUZZFEEDANDVULTURE

Erudite, intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . Agorgeously written novel of youths promise, of the quest to find ones tribe and ones calling.Leigh Haber,Oprah Daily

The Booker Prize finalist and widely acclaimed author ofReal LifeandFilthy Animalsreturns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads

InthesharedandprivatespacesofIowaCity,a loosecircleoflovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who didnt seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection. These four are buffeted by a cast of artists, landlords, meatpacking workers, and mathematicians who populate the cafes, classrooms, and food-service kitchens of the city, sometimes to violent and electrifying consequence. Finally, as each prepares for an uncertain future, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former livesa moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.

A novel of friendship and chosen family,The Late Americansasks fresh questions about love and sex, ambition and precarity, and about how human beings can bruise one another while trying to find themselves. It is Brandon Taylors richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of contemporary life.