Real Life: A Novel Sports What impels us to touch

What impels us to touch someone

After her parents and infant sister die

Before he was a superstar heartthrob

the café is themed after a private school where the all-female staff always puts on their best act for their loyal customers

Real Life: A Novel Sports What impels us to touchA FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award A blistering coming of age story O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Financial