Lot: Stories

Bryan Washington

Lot: Stories
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Turtleback
Published
1 January 2019
Pages
240
ISBN
9781663627711

Lot: Stories

Bryan Washington

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year
Phenomenal –Justin Torres, author of We the Animals Brilliant –Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders. –The New York Times Book Review

NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner A New York Times Notable Book of 2019

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he likes boys.

Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston’s myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra.

Bryan Washington’s brilliant, viscerally drawn world vibrates with energy, wit, raw power, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.

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