One of the breakout literary stars of 2020. Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as "a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways." Now he trains his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young people 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. 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 nigh