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Family Meal

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Pub Date 12 Oct 2023 | Archive Date 23 Oct 2023

Atlantic Books | Atlantic Fiction


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This is a story of found family, ghosts, queer friendship, and food. So sit yourself somewhere comfortable, and dig in.

Growing up , TJ was Cam’s boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ’s parents – Mae and Jin – took him in. Their family bakery became Cam’s safe place. Until he left, and it wasn’t anymore.

Years later, Cam’s world is falling apart. The love of his life, Kai, is gone: but his ghost keeps haunting Cam, and won’t let go. And Cam’s not sure he wants to let go, not sure he’s ready. When he has a chance to return to his home town, to work in a gay bar clinging on in a changing city landscape, he takes it. Back in the same place as TJ, they circle each other warily, their banter electric with an undercurrent of betrayal, drawn together despite past and current drama. Family is family. But TJ is no longer the same person that was left behind, and he’s not sure how to navigate utterly cool, completely devastated and self-destructing Cam crashing back into his world…

This is a story of found family, ghosts, queer friendship, and food. So sit yourself somewhere comfortable, and dig in.

Growing up , TJ was Cam’s boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ’s parents –...


Advance Praise

'Filled with love-for the sensual pleasure of life, the places that we call home, the beauty of the people around us. This novel will break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy. It takes a generous writer to show us the world in this way, and Bryan Washington is one of our best' RUMAAN ALAM

'Brimming with food, sex, joy, intimacy, hella specific jokes, and the broken tools that we inherit to save our lives, Family Meal is nourishment. An absolutely gorgeous book' MARY H.K. CHOI


Praise for Bryan Washington

‘A treat and an inspiration to witness’ OCEAN VUONG

‘A dazzling writer’ ALAN HOLLINGHURST

'Filled with love-for the sensual pleasure of life, the places that we call home, the beauty of the people around us. This novel will break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781838954444
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)
PAGES 320

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