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Ten years after leaving Houston, a young man living in Tokyo is surprised when his mother shows up unannounced for Christmas. Estranged and burdened by old wounds, they struggle to reconnect amid the bustle of city life, the quiet companionship of a cat, and memories that stretch from Jamaica to Tex...

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Main Author: Washington, Bryan, 1993- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
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Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Estranged families > Fiction.
Christmas > Fiction.
Tokyo (Japan) > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Queer fiction.
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Summary:Ten years after leaving Houston, a young man living in Tokyo is surprised when his mother shows up unannounced for Christmas. Estranged and burdened by old wounds, they struggle to reconnect amid the bustle of city life, the quiet companionship of a cat, and memories that stretch from Jamaica to Texas. As each learns to see the other anew, their journey reveals how love--messy, imperfect, and deeply human--can bridge even the widest divides.
Physical Description:320 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780374609078
0374609071
Author Notes:Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot and the novels Memorial and Family Meal . A National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree, he is the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Ernest J. Gaines Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an O. Henry Prize, and he has been a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and the James Tait Black Prize. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times , and his writing has also appeared in Granta , The New York Times Magazine , New York , Time , GQ , and Esquire , among many other publications. He is based in Tokyo.

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