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Bryan Washington · 2019
Houston stories: queer, multiracial, tender. Washington writes about food, family, and survival in neighborhoods most fiction ignores.
The case against
Half the collection follows one Houston narrator; the other half drops in on strangers, and the strangers lose. Every time the boy's story builds momentum, a standalone interrupts it, and Washington's flat, clipped delivery makes the side characters blur into one voice. Read straight through, the restraint starts to feel like a single note held for an entire book.
Short Stories · the Pro canon
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