Neither Benson nor Mitsuko is happy about being stuck with each other, but they slowly develop a relationship that’s not quite friendship and not quite family. Mike picks Mitsuko up from the airport, leaves her with Benson, then flies across the ocean to visit Eiju, whom he hasn’t seen in years. At the start of the novel, Mike’s mother, Mitsuko, flies to Houston to visit him at the same time that his father, Eiju, falls seriously ill back in Osaka. Both men have families they feel distant from: Benson’s father is an alcoholic who never fully accepted his son’s homosexuality, and Mike’s divorced parents have both left Houston for their native Japan. Benson and Mike are on the verge of breaking up, but their passion for each other keeps them from being able to fully pull away. The first and third are narrated by Benson, an African American man living in Houston with his boyfriend, Mike, who narrates the middle section. This debut novel from Washington-author of the award-winning story collection Lot (2019)-is split into three vividly written sections. Benson and Mike, a mixed-race couple in Houston, search for the truth about themselves, each other, and their families.
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