{"product_id":"palaver-hardcover","title":"Palaver - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBryan Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A heart-wrenchingly honest, often luminescent exploration of how to find and cultivate true connections, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places . . . [\u003ci\u003ePalaver\u003c\/i\u003e is] an unshakable triumph.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's Must-Read Books of 2025 and \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e' Best Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e New York\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor and drinks his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled in a sexual relationship with a married man, and while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his mother in Houston, whose preference for the son's oft-troubled homophobic brother, Chris, pushed him to leave home. Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since they last saw each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith only the son's cat, Taro, to mediate, the two of them bristle at each other immediately. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to reconcile her good intentions with her missteps. The son struggles to forgive. But as life steers them in unexpected directions--the mother to a tentative friendship with a local bistro owner and the son to a cautious acquaintance with a new patron of the bar--they begin to see each other more clearly. During meals and conversations and an eventful trip to Nara, mother and son try as best they can to determine where \"home\" really is--and whether they can even find it in one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with understated humor and an open heart, moving through past and present and across Houston, Jamaica, and Japan, Bryan Washington's \u003ci\u003ePalaver \u003c\/i\u003eis an intricate story of family, love, and the beauty of a life among others.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBryan Washington \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eLot\u003c\/i\u003e and the novels \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFamily Meal\u003c\/i\u003e. A National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree, he is the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Ernest J. Gaines Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an O. Henry Prize, and 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, and the James Tait Black Prize. He is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and his writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other publications. 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