

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: February Queer Book Club: Palaver
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us at Old Town Books as we discuss our February Queer Book Club pick: Palaver by Bryan WashingtonAbout this EventJoin a community of LBGTQIA2S+ readers meeting monthly to discuss stories by queer authors, centered on queer life!Old Town Books' Queer Book Club is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of Palaver by Bryan Washington at the shop or online and note "book club" to get 10% off.By attending any and all Old Town Books events you are agreeing to our code of conduct.Old Town Books is committed to creating accessible events and spaces for the widest possible audience. Please reach out to us at events@oldtownbooks.com for reasonable accessibility accommodations.About the BookFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction"A heart-wrenchingly honest, often luminescent exploration of how to find and cultivate true connections, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places . . . [Palaver is] an unshakable triumph.”—The Washington PostOne of TIME's Must-Read Books of 2025 and Kirkus' Best of Fiction 2025. 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 &amp; CountryA 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, 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.With 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.Written with understated humor and an open heart, moving through past and present and across Houston, Jamaica, and Japan, Bryan Washington’s Palaver is an intricate story of family, love, and the beauty of a life among others.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Alexandria
- **state**: VA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Old Town Books
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- **full address**: Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
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  - **A:** Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States
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