Minor Black Figures

Taylor has both a classic sensibility, expansive and elegant, and a razor-sharp ability to speak to the contemporary moment Emma ClineWyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and an art restorer but hes struggling with his portrait painting, unable to truly capture the life of his subjects.Then he meets Keating, a white former priest struggling with his faith. The two men seemingly have nothing in common, and yet Keating shows Wyeth how to see the world anew. The hot summer progresses, filled with art openings, walks around the city, and Wyeths search for a long forgotten Black artist. But as the men grow closer, the differences between them become more stark, until Wyeth and Keating must decide what they are willing to risk for art and for love.A page-turning New York novel and a sweeping modern romance, Minor Black Figures is an involving and tender portrait of loneliness and connection.Taylor is fast emerging as one of Americas most shrewdest cultural voices Telegraph