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Minor Black Figures

A Novel

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Minor Black Figures

By: Brandon Taylor
Narrated by: Andre Santana
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR!

From “literary superstar” (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his “most accomplished novel” (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity

New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.

After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retreats to a bar in the West Village where he meets Keating, a former seminarian. Over the long summer, as the two get to know each another, they talk and argue about God, sex, and art.

Meanwhile, at his job working for an art restorer, Wyeth begins to investigate the life and career of a forgotten, minor black artist. His search yields potential answers to questions that Wyeth is only now beginning to ask about what it means to be a black artist making black art amid the mess and beauty of life itself.

As he did so brilliantly in the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and the bestselling The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor brings alive a captivating set of characters, this time at work and at play in the competitive art world. Minor Black Figures is a vividly etched portrait, both sweeping and tender, of friendship, creativity, belief, and the deep connections among them. City Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban
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This book is everything James Baldwin wishes he could write. Love and blackness in full contrast and consciousness. A must read for anyone in post pandemic America. 12/10.

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I’m going to miss these characters. Taylor made them alive, sitting in my car, and I’ve been driving them around with me

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