Bryan Washington

From the bestselling author of Memorial a novel that will break your heart twice over with sadness sure but more unexpectedly with joy Rumaan Alam Growing up TJ was Cam s boy next door When Cam needed a home TJ s parents Mae and Jin took him in Their family bakery became Cam s safe place Until he left and it wasn t anymore Years later Cam s world is falling apart The love of his life Kai is gone but his ghost keeps haunting Cam and won t let go And Cam s not sure he wants to let go not sure he s ready When he has a chance to return to his home town to work in a gay bar clinging on in a changing city landscape he takes it Back in the same place as TJ they circle each other warily their banter electric with an undercurrent of betrayal drawn together despite past and current drama Family is family But TJ is no longer the same person Cam left behind he s had his own struggles The quiet low key queer kid the one who stayed home TJ s not sure how to navigate Cam utterly cool completely devastated and self destructing crashing back into his world When things said or left unsaid become so insurmountable that they devour us from within hope and sustenance and friendship can come from the most unlikely source Nou

En Benson i en Mike viuen junts a Houston, en Mike és xef, especialitzat en cuina nipona-americana, i treballa en un restaurant mexica; en Benson és negre i fa de professor. Fa anys que són parella però es troben en un punt d'impas. S'entenen molt bé al llit, en Mike cuina delícies per a en Benson i s'estimen, però ara en Mike ha sabut que el seu pare, a qui fa molts anys que no veu, s'esta morint a Osaka i decideix marxar a l'altra punta del món per acomiadar-se'n, justament quan la seva mare, Mitsuko, arriba a Texas per instal·lar-se a casa d'ells unes setmanes. Al Japó, en Mike descobreix la veritat sobre la seva família i el seu passat i comença una transformació personal extraordinaria, mentre que, a casa, amb la mare d'en Mike i sense la seva empenta vital, en Benson comença a sortir de la seva closca i s'adona que potser sí que sap què vol, a la vida. Memorial és una novel·la plena d'humor i profunditat sobre la família en tots els seus formats, la vulnerabilitat que brinden els lligams sentimentals i el poder i limitacions de l'amor.

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other.But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past, while back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted... Funny and profound, Memorial is about family in all its strange forms, becoming who you're supposed to be and the outer limits of love.

From the bestselling author of Memorial, a novel that will break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy. Rumaan AlamGrowing up , TJ was Cams boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJs parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. Their family bakery became Cams safe place. Until he left, and it wasnt anymore.Years later, Cams world is falling apart. The love of his life, Kai, is gone: but his ghost keeps haunting Cam, and wont let go. And Cams not sure he wants to let go, not sure hes ready. When he has a chance to return to his home town, to work in a gay bar clinging on in a changing city landscape, he takes it. Back in the same place as TJ, they circle each other warily, their banter electric with an undercurrent of betrayal, drawn together despite past and current drama. Family is family. But TJ is no longer the same person Cam left behind; hes had his own struggles. The quiet, low-key, queer kid, the one who stayed home, TJs not sure how to navigate Cam - utterly cool, completely devastated and self-destructing - crashing back into his world.When things said - or left unsaid - become so insurmountable that they devour us from within, hope and sustenance and friendship can come from the most unlikely source. Nourishment has many forms: eating croissants, sitting together at a table with bowls of curry, sharing history, confronting demons, growing flowers, showing up. This is a story about how the people who know us the longest can hurt us the most, but how they also set the standard for love, and by their necessary presence, create a family.

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThis feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happyOcean Vuong, author of On Earth Were Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but now theyre not sure why theyre still a couple. Theres the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past, while back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted...Funny and profound, Memorial is about family in all its strange forms, becoming who youre supposed to be and the outer limits of love.NAMED A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2021 BY:SUNDAY TIMES | THE TIMES | DAILY MAIL | THE TELEGRAPH | RADIO 4 | IRISH TIMES

· · Winner of the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize · ·· · Winner of the 2020 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award · ·____________________________________ · One of Barack Obamas "Favourite Books of the Year"·· A New York Times Critics Top Books of 2019 ·A superb book Max Porter, author of Lanny____________________________________ Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice.In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. Hes working at his familys restaurant, weathering his brothers blows, resenting his older sisters absence. And discovering he likes boys.This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins, the heartbreak of ghosts, and the braveries of the human heart. The stories of others living and thriving and dying across Houstons myriad neighbourhoods are woven throughout to reveal a young womans affair detonating across an apartment complex, a rag-tag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, and a reluctant chupacabra.Bryan Washingtons brilliant, viscerally drawn world leaps off the page with energy, wit, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot is about love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese-American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other.But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted.Without Mike's immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it. Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end.Memorial is a funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONSuch a joy Ocean VuongItll break and remake your heart Andrew Sean GreerYou want this gorgeous book RO KwonIN TOKYO, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. Hes entangled with a married man, too. But while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his family in America, particularly his mother, whose preference for the sons troubled homophobic brother pushed him to leave home. Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since theyve last seen each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep. Separated only by the sons cat, the two of them clash. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to atone for her missteps. The son initially struggles to forgive, but as they share meals, conversations and an eventful trip to one of the oldest cities in Japan, both mother and son start to reckon with the meaning of home - and whether, perhaps, they can find it in each other.

Una novela sobre la familia no convencional.Cam, afroamericano, y TJ, de origen coreano, se reencuentran tras años sin verse. Fueron inseparables de niños, y juntos descubrieron su homosexualidad. Los padres de TJ, dueños de una panaderia, acogieron a Cam como a uno mas de la familia. Despues la vida separo a los dos amigos, y cada uno de ellos ha pasado por experiencias dolorosas. Cam perdio a su pareja, Kai, que se le sigue apareciendo como una presencia fantasmal, y TJ perdio a su padre en un accidente. Ambos arrastran otros pesares intimos que el reencuentro les permitira afrontar De fondo, la ciudad tejana de Houston, en pleno cambio por la gentrificacion acelerada de algunos barrios, como el que acoge la panaderia de la familia de TJ.Despues del triunfo de Memorial, regresa Bryan Washington con las mismas virtudes que lo impulsaron como escritor: su tono intimista, sus personajes en busca de amor, amistad y segundas oportunidades y su capacidad para explorar las emociones, flaquezas y esperanzas humanas. En esta segunda novela vuelve a indagar con sutileza, profundidad y pinceladas de humor en temas como la raza, la identidad sexual, el deseo y la familia, o lo que podemos entender como familia en un sentido amplio, protector, acogedor.

Una emocionante novela sobre una pareja gay, que reflexiona sobre el amor, la familia, la enfermedad, el perdón y la felicidad.Benson y Mike son una pareja gay residente en Houston. Benson es afroamericano y trabaja como profesor en una guarderia. Mike es de origen japones y es chef en un restaurante mexicano. Su existencia en comun empieza a mostrar algunas grietas y a verse amenazada por la monotonia. Esa monotonia la romperan una serie de acontecimientos no precisamente felices que sacudiran sus vidas. La madre de Mike llega de visita desde Osaka en el preciso momento en que el recibe la noticia de que su padre que tambien vive en Osaka, aunque separado de la madre desde hace mucho esta enfermo de cancer. Decide ir a visitarlo sin mas dilacion y deja a su madre con Benson, convertidos ambos en extraños compañeros de piso. Entre tanto, Benson tambien tiene que lidiar con la salud de su padre, amenazada por un alcoholismo que empieza a poner en peligro su vida.Separados por miles de kilometros, Mike y Benson se confrontaran con el pasado de sus respectivas familias y con algunos secretos relacionados con el. Y viviran nuevas experiencias, y conoceran a otras personas, que pondran en cuestion la relacion que mantienen...Una novela hermosa y sutil sobre el amor, la familia, la raza, la sexualidad, las heridas mal cerradas, las segundas oportunidades, el perdon, la enfermedad y la busqueda de la felicidad. Una novela que seduce y atrapa por la fuerza humana de sus personajes, por sus pinceladas de humor y por la ambicion con la que afronta temas de gran calado emocional.

Una novela sobre la familia no convencional. Cam, afroamericano, y TJ, de origen coreano, se reencuentran tras años sin verse. Fueron inseparables de niños, y juntos descubrieron su homosexualidad. Los padres de TJ, dueños de una panaderia, acogieron a Cam como a uno mas de la familia. Despues la vida separo a los dos amigos, y cada uno de ellos ha pasado por experiencias dolorosas. Cam perdio a su pareja, Kai, que se le sigue apareciendo como una presencia fantasmal, y TJ perdio a su padre en un accidente. Ambos arrastran otros pesares intimos que el reencuentro les permitira afrontar De fondo, la ciudad tejana de Houston, en pleno cambio por la gentrificacion acelerada de algunos barrios, como el que acoge la panaderia de la familia de TJ.Despues del triunfo de Memorial, regresa Bryan Washington con las mismas virtudes que lo impulsaron como escritor: su tono intimista, sus personajes en busca de amor, amistad y segundas oportunidades y su capacidad para explorar las emociones, flaquezas y esperanzas humanas. En esta segunda novela vuelve a indagar con sutileza, profundidad y pinceladas de humor en temas como la raza, la identidad sexual, el deseo y la familia, o lo que podemos entender como familia en un sentido amplio, protector, acogedor.

Una emocionante novela sobre una pareja gay, que reflexiona sobre el amor, la familia, la enfermedad, el perdón y la felicidad. Benson y Mike son una pareja gay residente en Houston. Benson es afroamericano y trabaja como profesor en una guarderia. Mike es de origen japones y es chef en un restaurante mexicano. Su existencia en comun empieza a mostrar algunas grietas y a verse amenazada por la monotonia. Esa monotonia la romperan una serie de acontecimientos no precisamente felices que sacudiran sus vidas. La madre de Mike llega de visita desde Osaka en el preciso momento en que el recibe la noticia de que su padre que tambien vive en Osaka, aunque separado de la madre desde hace mucho esta enfermo de cancer. Decide ir a visitarlo sin mas dilacion y deja a su madre con Benson, convertidos ambos en extraños compañeros de piso. Entre tanto, Benson tambien tiene que lidiar con la salud de su padre, amenazada por un alcoholismo que empieza a poner en peligro su vida.Separados por miles de kilometros, Mike y Benson se confrontaran con el pasado de sus respectivas familias y con algunos secretos relacionados con el. Y viviran nuevas experiencias, y conoceran a otras personas, que pondran en cuestion la relacion que mantiene