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Bryan Washington

Memorial

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A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel… It made me happy'
Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Benson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years — good years — but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's 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 for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past, while back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted…
Funny and profound, Memorial is about family in all its strange forms, becoming who you're supposed to be and the outer limits of love.
NAMED A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2021 BY:
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261 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
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  • Diana Catshared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths

    I loved Bensons character, he is so sensitive and kind, such a soft person, also loved his relationship with Mitsuko.

  • Thomas Everett Vanderboomshared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    💞Loved Up
    🌴Beach Bag Book
    🚀Unputdownable
    😄LOLZ
    💧Soppy

    Love it with all my heart.

  • Alexander Simonshared an impression3 years ago
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Quotes

  • finalfadeouthas quoted2 months ago
    And then he’ll change his mind? I say.
    I don’t know about that. It could look like a lot of things. But that’s when he’ll make the decision he wants to make, as opposed to the one that he thinks he should. Or the one that’s actually the easiest path forward.
  • finalfadeouthas quoted2 months ago
    We didn’t actually decide anything, between the two of us. But a nondecision is a choice in itself.
  • finalfadeouthas quoted2 months ago
    There are plenty of things we should be talking about, but here we are, talking around exactly all of them.

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