Family Meal

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters--and readers--an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."--The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's life, won't leave Cam alone. He follows Cam from LA back home to Houston, his visits wild, tender, and unpredictable. But Cam has changed, and when he reenters the orbit of his childhood best friend TJ and his family's bakery, neither Cam nor TJ is sure how to navigate their charged estrangement. Searching for a way past all the wounds and secrets--a way to be okay together, maybe for the first time-- the pair find hope and sustenance from the most unlikely source.

From the bestselling, award-winning author Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest--even when they hurt us most--can also set the benchmark for love.

Author: Bryan Washington
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780593421109
ISBN10: 0593421108
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot and the bestselling novel Memorial. 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. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, an International Dylan Thomas Prize, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an O. Henry Prize, and was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize finalist, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. 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. He divides his time between Houston and Osaka.