An absolutely gorgeous book.It could be easy to read Lot as a reflection of life in Trump’s America, where questions of identity are increasingly urgent.

“Brimming with food, sex, joy, intimacy, hella specific jokes, and the broken tools that we inherit to save our lives, Family Meal is nourishment. Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

It takes a generous writer to show us the world in this way, and Bryan Washington is one of our best.” This novel will break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy. “Family Meal is filled with love-for the sensual pleasure of life, the places that we call home, the beauty of the people around us. He divides his time between Houston and Osaka. He is a columnist for the New York Times Magazine and his fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories. Bingham prize finalist, a National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize finalist, and the recipient of an O. Gaines Award, an International Dylan Thomas Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a PEN/Robert W. He is also the winner of a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, a New York Public Library Young Lions Award, an Ernest J. With his signature generosity and eye for food, sex, love, and the moments that make us the most human, Bryan Washington returns with a brilliant new novel.īryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot and the novel Memorial. Spanning Los Angeles, Houston, and Osaka, Family Meal 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. When secrets and wounds become so insurmountable that they devour us from within, hope and sustenance and friendship can come from the most unlikely source. Can they find a way past all that has been said - and left unsaid - to save each other? Could they find a way back to being okay again, or maybe for the first time? TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. RELEASE DATE: (PREORDERS WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE AND ARRIVE 1-2 DAYS AFTER THE RELEASE DATE)įrom the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss.Ĭam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Fiction - Coming of Age - Literary - LGBTQ+

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