Palaver
Bryan Washington · Literary Fiction · 336 pages
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#284 All Time
About this book
. . [Palaver is] an unshakable triumph.” —The Washington Post One of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2025 and Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2025 One of The Washington Post’s Best Fiction Books of the Year Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, New York, Time, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, People, Harper’s Bazaar, Bustle, and Town & Country A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. In 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, C
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