Without Mike’s immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it. Memorial is a heartfelt queer drama about migrant experiences, love across generations and cultures, and how love changes. 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. A review of Memorial, the debut novel by US author Bryan Washington. The trip provokes a transformation as he discovers the truth about his family and his past. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. There’s the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. A sense of self-estrangement pervades Memorial, which centers on the relationship between Mike and his Black boyfriend, Ben (short for Benson). 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. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Scott Rudin and Eli Bush will produce alongside A24.īook is described by its publisher as a funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms. He previously published the 2019 short story collection Lot, which was critically acclaimed. They will figure out exactly what form the novel will take, but Washington will adapt his work. Bryan Washington’s new novel, Memorial, ( Riverhead, October 27) is set in Houston and centers on Ben, an African American day-care worker with promiscuous tendencies, and his boyfriend, Mike, a. Book will be published Oct 27 by the Penguin Random House imprint Riverhead Press and is one of the buzz titles of the fall. EXCLUSIVE: A24 won a coveted novel for its TV division as it has closed a deal for Memorial, the novel by Bryan Washington.

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