Lot Stories

<b><b><b>One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” </b><br><br>"Phenomenal" --Justin Torres, author of <i>We the Animals</i></b><br><b>"Brilliant" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of <i>Here Comes the Sun</i><br>“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.”<i> —The New York Times Book Review </i><br><br><b>NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the<i> New York Times </i>by Dwight Garner</b><br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of 2019<br><br></b>The revelatory debut collection from the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of <i>Memorial </i>and <i>Family Meal</i><br></b><br></b>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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, <i>Lot</i> explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.