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A NEW YORK TIMES **NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK** Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post , TIME , NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine , Esquire , Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar , Good Housekeeping , Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature , and Lit Hub “A masterpiece. ” —NPR “No other novel this year captures so gracefully the full palette of America. ” — The Washington Post “Wryly funny, gently devastating.” — Entertainment Weekly A funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've 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 in Texas for

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Author
Bryan Washington
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780593087275
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
4 / 5 (2,725 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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