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MEMORIAL - BRYAN WASHINGTON KARTONIERT (TB)

This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy'  Ocean Vuong  author
of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous  'Brilliantly details the smallest moments that mean the
absolute most  the heartbreakingly human limitations of how we love one another' Kiley Reid 
author of Such a Fun Age  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: 
SUNDAY TIMES | THE TIMES | DAILY MAIL | THE TELEGRAPH | RADIO 4 | IRISH TIMES

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