LikedI have not gotten around to all of these, but I read Memorial a few years ago and I remember really enjoying it and loving the writing in it a lot.
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Memorial (2020)
Creators: Mixed Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years—good years—but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted. Without Mike's immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it. Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end.
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LovedI loved his novel Memorial which I think was his debut I thought Memorial was a really clever piece of queer fiction
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MixedMemorial by Brian Wasington is good but I was waiting for it to be great there are some beautiful lines and it's an interesting idea
DislikedAnd I don't know I just didn't feel like there was enough about the writing style or thematically to hold up the plot of this novel. And I just found it fairly tedious and I think for me Bryan Washington's writing style just doesn't work.
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LovedSo, it's not that sweeping prose that you might love, but it is a very beautiful love story. And the characterization, the character development, the dual perspective of this is really nicely done, and I really love this book.
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Mixedthis book was a interesting experience like the writing in here is great i think the problem that i had is twofold one the story starts off entirely from brenson's perspective so you read like a solid 100 pages or so and then it switches to mike's perspective and at that point i was really mad that it switches to mike's perspective because i love benson as a character and i loved what was happening with benson and kind of like the character development i suppose that he's going through
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