Family Meal 'This novel will break your heart twice over'
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Atlantic Books
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ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
12.10.2023
Verlag
Atlantic BooksSeitenzahl
320 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
4609 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781838954451
Growing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. Their family bakery became Cam's safe place. Until he left, and it wasn't anymore.
Years later, Cam's world is falling apart. The love of his life, Kai, is gone: but his ghost keeps haunting Cam, and won't let go. And Cam's not sure he wants to let go, not sure he's ready. When he has a chance to return to his home town, to work in a gay bar clinging on in a changing city landscape, he takes it. Back in the same place as TJ, they circle each other warily, their banter electric with an undercurrent of betrayal, drawn together despite past and current drama. Family is family. But TJ is no longer the same person Cam left behind; he's had his own struggles. The quiet, low-key, queer kid, the one who stayed home, TJ's not sure how to navigate Cam - utterly cool, completely devastated and self-destructing - crashing back into his world.
When things said - or left unsaid - become so insurmountable that they devour us from within, hope and sustenance and friendship can come from the most unlikely source. Nourishment has many forms: eating croissants, sitting together at a table with bowls of curry, sharing history, confronting demons, growing flowers, showing up. This is a story about how the people who know us the longest can hurt us the most, but how they also set the standard for love, and by their necessary presence, create a family.
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Equal parts tender and brutal
"My family taught me the difference between acceptance, allowance and understanding. Also: just being. Sometimes they overlap. Usually, they don't." It was my second time reading a book from Bryan Washington and it left one hell of an impression. 'Family Meal' is a beautifully layered novel, one I've spent days with. Bryan Washington wrote a raw book about grief, love and (found) family. About finding a home. About the responsibility to take care of each other. About just trying to be, if life's too tough. And of course about food. You will close your eyes and taste the way Cam's grief mixes with TJ's fragile hope. I devoured this novel. There’s so much heart in these pages. I teared up multiple times. These characters and their stories will stay with me for a long time. And of course I loved to read a queer book from a POCs perspective. A masterclass on all counts.
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