Real LifeReal Life follows Wallace, who has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic wormsa slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, living a life that feels a world away from his childhood in Alabama. Although his father died a few weeks ago, Wallace has neither gone back home nor told his friendsMiller, Yngve, Cole, and Emma. To protect himself, he has grown accustomed