Palaver

‘Gripping, beautiful, honest, unlike anything else on the bookshelf. A great work by one of America’s greatest young writers, Palaver will break and remake your heart. A book I will sending to everyone I know’ - Andrew Sean Greer‘Washington is a technically dazzling writer ’ - Alan Hollinghurst ‘Bryan Washington speaks for people who have too long been silenced, and the voice he has found for them is defiant, compassionate, decent and profoundly human ’ - Damon Galgut

Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot and the novels Memorial and Family Meal. A National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree, he is the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Ernest J. Gaines Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an O. Henry Prize, and he has been a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and the James Tait Black Prize. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times, his writing has also appeared in Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Time, GQ, and Esquire, among many other places. He is based in Tokyo.