Lot

* One of Barack Obama's "Favourite Books of the Year" * * A New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 * 'A superb book' Max Porter, author of Lanny ____________________________________ Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice. In an apartment block in the city of Houston, the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, trying to dodge his brother's fists and resenting his older sister's absence. He's also discovering he likes boys... All around him his friends and neighbours experience the tumult of living in the margins, the heartbreak of ghosts and the braveries of the human heart. The stories of others living, thriving and dying across the city's myriad neighbourhoods are stitched throughout the boy's life to reveal a young woman caught out in an affair, the fortunes of a rag-tag baseball team and a group of young hustlers, the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, and the fate of a camera-shy mythical beast. 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.