Lot

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice In the city of Houston a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age He s working at his family s restaurant, weathering his brother s blows, resenting his older sister s absence And discovering he likes boys.This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins, the heartbreak of ghosts, and the braveries of the human heart The stories of others living and thriving and dying across Houston s myriad neighborhoods are woven throughout to reveal a young woman s affair detonating across an apartment complex, a rag tag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, and a reluctant chupacabra.Bryan Washington s brilliant, viscerally drawn world leaps off the page with energy, wit, and the infinite longing of people searching for home With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot is about love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms. Download Lot Author Bryan Washington – kino-fada.fr I read and reviewed this book for Lambda Literary, where my full review can be found.Introspective and understated, Lot gives voice to the silenced pain of Houston s Black and Latinx working class The collection of thirteen linked short stories alternates between tracking an unnamed narrator s coming of age and exploring the diverse experiences of the boy s fellow Houstonians In terse prose, author Bryan Washington fully renders the inner lives of gay men struggling to endure the hardships of I read and reviewed this book for Lambda Literary, where my full review can be found.Introspective and understated, Lot gives voice to the silenced pain of Houston s Black and Latinx working class The collection of thirteen linked short stories alternates between tracking an unnamed narrator s coming of age and exploring the...Bayou and Navigation are high points in this fantastic collection The only miss here is the longest selection, Waugh , which I never connected with Elgin was the best possible tale to end with This is one of th...Why I love itby Mat JohnsonI m the greediest kind of fiction reader, because I want it all I want a book that grabs me in a headlock and won t let me put it down without a fight I want a book with characters and conflicts that pull me in I want a book that haunts me long after I ve read its final page I want it to let me see the world in a fresh way that s been there the whole time yet has eluded me so far And I got all this, and , from Bryan Washington s Lot.Lot is a linked collection Why I love itby Mat JohnsonI m the greediest kind of fiction reader, because I want it all I want a book that grabs me in a headlock and won t let me put it down without a fight I want a book with characters and conflicts that pull me in I want a book that haunts me long after I ve read its final page I want it to let me see the world in a fresh way that s been there the whole time yet has eluded me so far And I got all this, and , from Bryan Washington s Lot.Lot is a linked collection of stories that reads like a novel Connected largely by a central, unnamed young man ...Some great stories in this book Half follow one family, the other half follow their neighborhood Black and brown and queer and poor and great Kind of dark kind of fun Really well done and accessible Great use of language and slang So good.3.5 stars A moving and unique collection of stories set in Houston, TX I enjoyed that nearly half orof the stories were told from the perspective of one character, while the others sprinkled throughout gave glimpses into the lives of various types of people around him i...You bring yourself wherever you go You are the one thing you can never run out on.Have ever read a book that you finally get into and in the end, you don t know how to review it Well that is me with the book LOT It really gave me insight but also made think of how we receive others Overall, I enjoyed the structure of the book It focuses on a direct family but gives voices to their neighborhood as well There is much power, strength, and survival in these short stories Well worth the rea You bring yourself wherever you go You are the one th...I received this book as part of a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway I enjoyed the stories in this book About half of them were connected, and it was very interestingly done They re all about coming of age, and coming out, while being a POC I would like to readabo...I am very much on the hunt for short stories by and about minority voices and this was perfect I don t know Houston but I feel like I do now Inter connected short stories make for a particularly satisfying collection Every story here shines.This book is as good as everyone says it is Haunting and powerful.I received this book for free via this site s giveaway program I m going to say something about this book that sounds like a compliment, but I don t mean it that way So, if you re reading this review, you should feel free to interpret what I m about to say however you like If you think that it s a compliment, well, then maybe this is a book that you d like If you think that it s not a compliment, then maybe this is a book you should pass on.With that said, here s my very brief take on Lot I received this book for free via this site s giveaway program I m going to say something about this book that sounds like a compliment, but I don t mean it that way So, if you re reading this review, you should feel free to interpret what I m about to say however you like If you think that it s a compliment, well, then maybe this is a book that you d like If you think that it s not a compliment, then maybe this is a book you should pass on.With that said, here s my very brief take on Lot this reminds me a lot of Junot Diaz, but Drown Diaz, not Oscar Wao Diaz.Now, again, that probably sounds like a compliment To compare Washington to a famous, award winning, possibly groundbreaking novelist is to offer him praise or, at least, so...In Lot, Bryan Washington explores the myriad experiences of families and friends in the margins of the Houston area These interconnected stories follow an unnamed narrator as he navigates an adolescence of poverty while confronting his own identity as a gay man Meanwhile, in the periphery, we encounter unfaithful spouses, scorned lovers, drug dealers, sex workers and witness the indelible effects of gentrification on those on the lowest rungs Lot is a little bit like Jesus Son with som In Lot, Bryan Washington explores the myriad experiences of families and friends in the margins of the Houston area These interconnected stories follow an unnamed narrator as he navigates an adolescence of poverty while confronting his own identity as a gay man Meanwhile, in the periphery, we encounter unfaithful spouses, scorned lovers, drug dealers, sex workers and witness t...

• English
• 07 May 2018
Bryan Washington
• Hardcover
• 240 pages
• 0525533672
• Bryan Washington
• Lot