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From the Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author: a perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity

A newcomer to New York, Wyeth is a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. Its challenging. Gallery shows displaying bad art. Pretentious artists jockeying for attention. The gossip and the backstabbing. While his part-time work for an art restorer is engaging, Wyeth suffers from artists block with his painting and he is finding it increasingly difficult to spark his creativity. When he meets Keating, a white former seminarian who left the priesthood, Wyeth begins to reconsider how to observe the world, in the process facing questions about the conflicts between Black and white art, the white gaze on the Black body, and the compromises we make in art and in life.

As he did so adeptly in Booker finalistReal Lifeand the bestsellingThe Late Americans, Brandon Taylor brings to life inMinor Black Figuresa fascinating set of characters, this time in the competitive art world, and the lives they lead with each and on their own.Minor Black Figuresis an involving and tender portrait of friendship, creativity, and the connections between them.

Brandon Tayloris the author of the novelsThe Late AmericansandReal Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named aNew York Times Book ReviewEditors Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collectionFilthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He lives in New York City.

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publish Date: October 14, 2025
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPCC: 9780593332368
• Dimensions: 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches | 1.1 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Popular Fiction