![]() ![]() The fissures in their relationship come to a head when Mike announces he will spend “just … a few weeks” or “maybe a couple of months” in Osaka with his dying father while his mother, Mitsuko, travels to Houston to take his place. They also have different, vague ideas about what constitutes fidelity. Their relationship, however, is less idyllic than that portrait suggests. Benson, a Black daycare teacher, and Mike, a Japanese American chef, spend their first few years together having good, impassioned sex and eating the meals Mike prepares for them. Like his short fiction, Memorial concerns the lives of gay men in Houston. Washington’s first novel, Memorial, seems to be on a similarly acclaimed trajectory. Lot garnered critical praise and earned a coveted position on Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books of the year. Bryan Washington’s rise to literary fame began in 2019 with the publication of Lot, his first short story collection, and has shown no signs of abating. ![]()
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