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Also by Brandon Taylor:

Minor Black Figures, October 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Late Americans, June 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Filthy Animals, July 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Filthy Animals, July 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Real Life, February 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Real Life, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book

FILTHY ANIMALS
By: Brandon Taylor

Riverhead Books
July 2022
On Sale: June 21, 2022
288 pages
ISBN: 0525538925
EAN: 9780525538929
Kindle: B08LR8416F
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Other Editions
Hardcover (July 2021)

LGBTQ

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. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty.