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Resumen del libro

In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled with a married man, too. But while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his family in America, particularly his mother, whose preference for the son's troubled homophobic brother pushed him to leave home.

Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since they've last seen each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep. Separated only by the son's cat, the two of them clash. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to atone for her missteps.

The son initially struggles to forgive, but as they share meals, conversations and an eventful trip to one of the oldest cities in Japan, both mother and son start to reckon with the meaning of 'home' - and whether, perhaps, they can find it in each other.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Bryan Washingtonx{0026}lt;/strong es autor del libro de relatos x{0026}lt;em Lotx{0026}lt;/em , que ganó el Young Lions Fiction Award, quedó finalista del NBCCx{0026} x02019;s John Leonard Prize, el PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize y el Aspen Words Literary Prize y fue incluido en la lista de libros del año del expresidente norteamericano Barack Obama. Ha escrito para medios como x{0026}lt;em The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em The New York Times Magazinex{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em BuzzFeedx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Bon Appétitx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Vulturex{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em The Paris Reviewx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em GQx{0026}lt;/em o la x{0026}lt;em BBCx{0026}lt;/em . Vive en Houston. Anagrama ha publicado x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Memorialx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , su primera novela: Una novela de lo más meritoria, llena de vida y, por qué no decirlo, de buenas intenciones, sin que ello implique que el entramado de relaciones aquí planteado no esté repleto de aristas espinosas, afiladas con enorme mala lechex{0026} x02026; Lo más meritorio de x{0026}lt;em Memorialx{0026}lt;/em está en su escritura, sobre todo en su elocuente desparpajo (Fran G. Matute, x{0026}lt;em El Culturalx{0026}lt;/em ), y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Comida familiarx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Washington tiene una profunda capacidad para enfrentarse a la crueldad y el dolor de la vida norteamericana contemporánea y al mismo tiempo ofrecer a sus personajes (y sus lectores) espacio para la esperanza, el alimento y el perdón (Bilal Qureshi, x{0026}lt;em The Washington Postx{0026}lt;/em ).x{0026}lt;/p