num_pages: 240
description: Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston from a powerful emerging American voice. In the city of Houstona sprawling diverse microcosm of Americathe son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant weathering his brother's blows resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins the heartbreak of ghosts and the braveries of the human heart. The stories of others living and thriving and dying across Houston's myriad neighborhoods are woven throughout to reveal a young woman's affair detonating across an apartment complex a rag-tag baseball team a group of young hustlers the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing and a reluctant chupacabra. 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. Lockwood --Alief --610 North 610 West --Shepherd --Wayside --Bayou --Lot --South Congress --Navigation --Peggy Park --Fannin --Waugh --Elgin
language: English
title: Lot
publisher: Riverhead Books