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Bryan Washington, author of Memorial

Benson and Mike have been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. When Mike finds out that 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. In Japan, he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. 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. 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.

Week of October 25, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of October 25th include Linwood Barclay's FIND YOU FIRST, a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a dying tech millionaire are mysteriously being eliminated, one by one; I’LL BE SEEING YOU, a beautifully written memoir by Elizabeth Berg, who tells the poignant love story of caring for her parents in their final years; ROBERT B. PARKER’S SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME by Ace Atkins, a new Spenser mystery that finds the legendary Boston PI and his young protégé, Mattie Sullivan, taking on a billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients; and Bryan Washington's debut novel, MEMORIAL, a funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.