5/25/2023 0 Comments Family Meal by Bryan Washington![]() Are they happy? Are they breaking up, after four-ish years of being together? Possibly both, but Mike’s estranged father is in the last stages of cancer, Mike’s mother is en route to Houston and Mike has decided to go to Osaka to see his dad for the first time in years. Mike is Japanese American and cooks at a coffee shop. ![]() ![]() Benson is a Black day care worker who grew up in the city. The book centers on Benson and Mike, a couple who live in Houston’s gentrifying Third Ward. He will appear virtually Wednesday at BookPeople in conversation with author and MacArthur fellow Jacqueline Woodson. » RELATED: Texas Book Fest 2020: Our writers recommend these authorsĪlready in development for television by Emmy-winning studio A24 with Washington writing the adaptation, “Memorial” arrives on shelves Tuesday. The National Book Foundation dubbed him one of the “5 Under 35” to watch. His 2019 short-story collection “Lot” won multiple prizes and earned a place on former President Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books that year. “Memorial” (Riverhead/Penguin, $27) may be Washington’s debut novel, but he’s headed squarely for a moment of his own. “It’s the plateaus between the capital letter moments of relationships.” ![]() “I keep saying it’s the creases of relationships,” Bryan Washington explains by phone from Houston, where he grew up and where part of “Memorial” takes place. Small things matter in “Memorial” - what’s said and what’s glossed over, a look over the dinner table, minutes spent prepping side by side in the kitchen. ![]()
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