Book Event: Bryan Washington

Book Launch: Bryan Washington presents Palaver

Award-winning author and National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree Bryan Washington launches Palaver, a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love. In Tokyo, an English tutor entangled in a relationship with a married man has built himself a chosen family in Japan. But he is estranged from his Jamaican mother in Houston, whose preference for the son’s oft-troubled homophobic brother 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. Named a Most Anticipated Book by New York, Time, the Boston Globe, Bustle, and Town & Country—Palaver moves through past and present, and across Houston, Jamaica, and Japan, to follow mother and son as they try their best to determine where “home” really is—and whether they can even find it in one another. Washington reads from and discusses the novel, before an audience Q&A and signing.

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