The Late Americans

A Book of 2023 in the Guardian. , Irish Times. , Harper's Bazaar, Esquire. and i-D. In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they are. As they test their own desires in a series of relationships they are confronted by volatile figures in town, from unruly, vulnerable young poets to a local landlord harbouring a lifetime of resentment. Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on. Work, love, money, dance, poetry. Is love possible without harm. And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity. 'Tender and unflinching. A wonderful book' Colin Barrett, author of Homesickness. 'Taylor is a sharp chronicler of the body' Raven Leilani, author of Luster. '. A glimmering study of young humans in brutal times' Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar.