Minor Black Figures

Minor Black Figures is brilliant — an exploration of the fraught channel between faith and artmaking -- Raven Leilani Brandon Taylor is without a doubt our laureate of hyper-intelligent yearning - nobody does it better * Lit Hub * Contemplative and sensuous… Taylor is onto something rich and appealing—a story unafraid to foreground love and lust, and that treats emotional ambiguity as a starting point, not as the fuzzy ending common in literary fiction. A piercing, precise, and affecting tale of young love and high art * Kirkus * Dazzling. . . a poetic meditation on Black art, friendship, young love and intimacy * USA Today * A sharp, resonant novel about a young Black gay painter adrift in New York who spends one life-changing summer grappling with questions of faith, desire, and creative purpose * Bustle * Brandon Taylor is always a must-read, and his newest, Minor Black Figures, is another masterpiece… It’s a moving, thoughtful take on friendship, love, and art * Town & Country * Mesmerizingly detailed. . .this novel of ideas about art, selfhood, and faith is also a romance, a friendship story, and an enjoyable slice of one hazy Manhattan summer * Booklist * Sexy as hell... Paced to the languid, sticky rhythms of a New York summer... Minor Black Figures is Taylor’s most accomplished novel — a sustained, idiosyncratic portrait of an artist... imbued with a fresh, tentative sweetness, and anchored by a genuinely swoony summer romance * New York Times *