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Regina Porter Is Writing a Pandemic Novel. Karen Russell Talks About 'Sleep Donation'. More Interviews With Writers From Esquire What follows is a bittersweet meditation on love, care, and what it means to be home. I cook, and cook, and cook.” Their companionable stasis is turned upside down when Mike receives news that his estranged father is dying in Japan just as his mother Mitsuko arrives on their doorstep, forcing Benson and Mitsuko to become unlikely roommates in Mike’s absence. We fuck on the sofa, in the kitchen, on the floor. Benson and Mike’s years-long live-in relationship is on the rocks, with each one of them too apathetic to rekindle their romance or to end it. Drawn together in Memorial, they make for a literary magic trick, a vivid and poignant portrait of how love, romantic and familial, is weathered and ultimately deepened by time.Īt Memorial’s center are two complicated men: Benson, a Black daycare teacher, and Mike, a Japanese-American chef. They scatter from Washington’s pen like jewel chips, forming a dazzling tapestry of the places, people, and meals that make us. 
Memorial is a novel packed with heirlooms-unbidden gifts of care, cooking, and grace.
It’s a personal thing,” chides Mitsuko, one of the three characters at the heart of the triad in Bryan Washington’s Memorial.
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