{"product_id":"family-meal-9780593421109","title":"Family Meal","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters\u003cb\u003e--and readers\u003cb\u003e--an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's life, won't leave Cam alone. He follows Cam from LA back home to Houston, his visits wild, tender, and unpredictable. But Cam has changed, and when he reenters the orbit of his childhood best friend TJ and his family's bakery, neither Cam nor TJ is sure how to navigate their charged estrangement. Searching for a way past all the wounds and secrets--a way to be okay together, maybe for the first time-- the pair find hope and sustenance from the most unlikely source. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the bestselling, award-winning author \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLot\u003c\/i\u003e, an irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest--even when they hurt us most--can also set the benchmark for love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBryan Washington\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eLot \u003c\/i\u003eand the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the winner of a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, a New York Public Library Young Lions Award, an Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, an International Dylan Thomas Prize, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an O. Henry Prize, and was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a PEN\/Robert W. Bingham prize finalist, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. He is a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand his fiction has appeared in\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He divides his time between Houston and Osaka.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875389804818,"sku":"9780593421109","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10b78578-a27c-4359-9d02-2059d3fcea13.jpg?v=1751125436","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/family-meal-9780593421109","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}