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A powerhouse. Newsweek"An extraordinary cartographer." - Esquire"A striking new voice with a vital perspective." - Harper's Bazaar"A brilliant writer." - Garth GreenwellNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Harper's Bazaar, Lit Hub, and The Millions. A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness.



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Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of and a staff writer at . His writing has received fellowships from Lambda Literary Foundation, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Summer Writer's Workshop. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction.



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