Book Club – Real Life by Brandon Taylor
The next Massey Book Club takes place in person (or online) on Monday, November 1. Please join us from 7:45-9:00pm for a presentation and conversation about the book followed by a Q+A with the audience.
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About the Book
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.
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Date
- Nov 01 2021
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Time
- 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Speakers
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Niyosha KeyzadAlum, Massey College
Niyosha Keyzad is a PhD Candidate at the Department of English and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her research focuses on representations of Iran in post-revolution women’s life writing in the diaspora. Beyond her academic work and teaching, Niyosha is also an advocate for structural change in under-served communities across the city, particularly in response to the disparities afflicting Scarborough. She is co-founder of the Scarborough Studies Collective – a grass roots initiative dedicated to addressing systemic injustice in Scarborough through local knowledge and leadership.
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Kevin LuniangaSenior Analyst at Global Affairs Canada
Kevin Lunianga is a Senior Analyst at Global Affairs Canada. Prior to joining the public service, Kevin worked as a flight attendant for two years with WestJet Airlines.
Kevin is a graduate of the MA program at the Centre for Criminology and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Toronto, where he taught and led initiatives on addressing policing in Canada, and the sociology of law.
Kevin currently sits on the board of directors for the Ottawa based NGO, MAX Ottawa, which provides health and well-being support to queer and trans individuals in the National Capital Region.