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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. More about this book >
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Bryan Washington at the 2025 National Book Awards Finalist Reading
Bryan Washington reading from Lot. 2019 5 Under 35 Celebration
Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot and the novels Memorial and Family Meal. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, he is the winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, two Lambda Literary Awards, and was featured in the O. Henry Prize Stories in 2019. He has been a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Times, his writing has also appeared in Granta, the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, TIME Magazine, GQ, and Esquire, among many other places. He is based in Tokyo.
(Photo credit: Cydney Cosette)
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