Bryan Washington

‘One of the best books I’ve read this year. Truly masterful’ – Roxane Gay Growing up , TJ was Cam’s boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ’s parents – Mae and Jin – took him in. Their family bakery became Cam’s safe place. Until he left, and it wasn’t anymore. Years later, Cam’s […]

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice.

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 […]

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.