At turns joyful and heartbreaking, Stone Fruit reveals through intimately naturalistic dialog and blue-hued watercolor how painful it can be to truly become vulnerable to your loved ones — and how fulfilling it is to be finally understood for who you are. More about this book >

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  Bryan Washington

  

  Bryan Washington is a writer from Houston. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time, Vulture, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, and The Cut, among many others. He is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree for his collection of short stories, Lot. He is also the winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, an Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence recipient, an International Dylan Thomas Prize recipient, a Lambda Literary Award recipient, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle for Fiction award, a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, a National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize finalist, and won the PEN/O. Henry Prize. He is currently the Writer-In-Residence at Rice University. His debut novel, Memorial, was named a New York Times Notable Book, Longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.