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Title: Palaver
Author: Bryan Washington
ISBN: 9780374609078
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher Description: <p><b>A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. <p/></b>In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor and drinks his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled in a sexual relationship with a married man, and while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his mother in Houston, whose preference for the son's oft-troubled homophobic brother, Chris, pushed him to leave home. Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since they last saw each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep. <p/>With only the son's cat, Taro, to mediate, the two of them bristle at each other immediately. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to reconcile her good intentions with her missteps. The son struggles to forgive. But as life steers them in unexpected directions--the mother to a tentative friendship with a local bistro owner and the son to a cautious acquaintance with a new patron of the bar--they begin to see each other more clearly. During meals and conversations and an eventful trip to Nara, mother and son try as best they can to determine where "home" really is--and whether they can even find it in one another. <p/>Written with understated humor and an open heart, moving through past and present and across Houston, Jamaica, and Japan, Bryan Washington's <i>Palaver </i>is an intricate story of family, love, and the beauty of a life among others.</p>
Author: Bryan Washington
ISBN: 9780374609078
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher Description: <p><b>A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. <p/></b>In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor and drinks his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled in a sexual relationship with a married man, and while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his mother in Houston, whose preference for the son's oft-troubled homophobic brother, Chris, pushed him to leave home. Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since they last saw each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep. <p/>With only the son's cat, Taro, to mediate, the two of them bristle at each other immediately. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to reconcile her good intentions with her missteps. The son struggles to forgive. But as life steers them in unexpected directions--the mother to a tentative friendship with a local bistro owner and the son to a cautious acquaintance with a new patron of the bar--they begin to see each other more clearly. During meals and conversations and an eventful trip to Nara, mother and son try as best they can to determine where "home" really is--and whether they can even find it in one another. <p/>Written with understated humor and an open heart, moving through past and present and across Houston, Jamaica, and Japan, Bryan Washington's <i>Palaver </i>is an intricate story of family, love, and the beauty of a life among others.</p>
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