Memorial - Bryan Washington
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, A Good Morning America Book Club Pick, Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and Lit Hub, A funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who youre supposed to be, and the limits of love., Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese-American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Bensons a Black day-care teacher, and theyve 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 in Te
