Palaver

Bryan Washington

earliest edition we have, 2025 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2025 336 pages

In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking 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 family in Houston, particularly his mother, 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...

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Palaver paperback · 2026 · Atlantic Books · 336 pages · 9781805463962
Palaver hardcover · 2025 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 336 pages · 9780374609078
Palaver edition · 2025 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 336 pages · 9780374609085

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