Bryan Washington. (2019). Lot: Stories. Penguin Publishing Group.

Bryan Washington. 2019. Lot: Stories. Penguin Publishing Group.

Bryan Washington, Lot: Stories. Penguin Publishing Group, 2019.

Bryan Washington. Lot: Stories. Penguin Publishing Group, 2019.

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One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” 
"Phenomenal" —Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Brilliant" —Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner
A New York Times Notable Book of 2019

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys.
Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra.
Bryan Washington's brilliant, viscerally drawn world vibrates with energy, wit, raw power, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.

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     January 15, 2019
     A sensitive portrait of life among Houston's struggling working class.At the center of this debut collection is a preternaturally observant, unnamed Afro-Latinx boy who narrates many of the stories. His philandering father eventually abandons the family, while his mother's pain at this betrayal permeates the home even after the father's disappearance. His brother, Javi, is a neighborhood drug dealer who reacts to this dysfunction with mean-spirited aggression against the narrator; his sister, Jan, distances herself from the family. Amid this domestic strife, our narrator begins to discover his sexuality through a string of encounters with other neighborhood boys. This is difficult for the narrator, whose brother is an intensely disapproving and homophobic figure. In the title story, the narrator recounts that "Javi said the only thing worse than a junkie father was a faggot son." When the narrator's sexuality isn't met with disdain, it is mostly obscured in silence, in his family's collective inability to recognize who he is. But we don't get much of a chance to know him, either: Though he is the collection's epicenter, he functions more like a reader stand-in than an actual character, providing us access to his world. The collection ripples outward from his perspective, using story to bring Houston's myriad cultures to life. In "Alief," we're introduced to Aja, a married Jamaican immigrant who begins a torrid affair with a local white boy--much to the chagrin of the Greek chorus-like neighbors. Their nosy disdain sets a tragic denouement in motion. In the collection's centerpiece, "Waugh," a sex worker named Poke and his pimp, Rod, deal with the profession's inherent dangers; rather than painting a portrait of abjection, however, Washington gives us the story of a tightknit community of marginalized people who cling to one another for safety and support. For all of this, however, there's something airy about this book. Despite its aspiration to represent a city, its prose often feels maddeningly abstract. "Elgin" begins this way: "Once, I slept with a boy. Big and black and fuzzy all over. We met the way you meet anyone out in the world and I brought him back to Ma's." This vagueness characterizes many of the stories' voices, such that they are often indistinguishable from one another. The collection sometimes feels more like a collection of modern fables than the hard-nosed, realist stories it wants to be. Still, Washington writes with an assurance that signals the arrival of an important literary voice.A promising, and at times powerful, debut that explores the nuances of race, class, and sexuality with considerable aplomb.

     COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     February 1, 2019
     Washington's debut short story collection takes place in the Houston neighborhoods surrounding a teenager finding his way as his family leaves him, one by one. His Latino father, whom his Black mother's family warned her not to marry, disappears most of the time, and then all of the time. His brother, in whom he keeps confiding his interest in other boys, despite the beatings, enlists. His sister settles down with a kid of her own. When he and his mother are left to their lot, the restaurant and apartment above it that his parents bought as hopeful newlyweds, it's clear this new normal won't last long either. Stories that don't star him complete his constellation: one, for instance, about a prostitute who doesn't know if he can trust a client's benevolence, or another, told in the collective voice of those who remember the fallout of their neighbors' infidelities. Washington writes scenes to live in and dialogue that's practically audible on the page, giving his standout first book a novelistic arc and a defiantly satisfying ending.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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"Phenomenal" —Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Brilliant" —Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner
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