Houston osaka bryan washington6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The thrill of Washington’s writing isn’t the way he guides his characters toward some rupturing realization, but rather how they manage to squeak by, through a thousand tiny moments of love and violence, in the day-to-day reality of living. Each character is struggling to find their place in a messy, complicated, unpredictable world. That’s your issue right there.” This volatile exchange is as close as Washington gets to diagnosing the existential crisis at the heart of his fictional universe. “I don’t really think it’s my place,” the young man says, to which the tenacious mother responds, “That’s your problem… Both of you. At the end of Bryan Washington’s mesmerizing debut novel, Memorial, a long-suffering, no-nonsense mother asks her son’s boyfriend to explain the intricacies of a troubled relationship. ![]()
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