magnuscumlaude 's review for:

Family Meal by Bryan Washington

5.0

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Family Meal, my first read of 2023, enters my canon of modern gay classic literature. It joins the ranks of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, and so on. Bryan Washington brings us back to Houston for his second novel, but this time there is big emphasis on food and how it brings us together. I think it set a good tone for the reading year to come.