From the bestselling award-winning author of Memorial and Lot an irresistible intimate novel about two young men once best friends whose lives collide again after a loss. Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kais ghost wont leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild tender and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend TJ and TJs family bakery. TJs not sure how to navigate this changed Cam impenetrably cool and self-destructing or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way past all that has been said - and left unsaid - to save each other? Could they find a way back to being okay again or maybe for the first time? When secrets and wounds become so insurmountable that they devour us from within hope and sustenance and friendship can come from the most unlikely source. Spanning Los Angeles Houston and Osaka Family Meal is a story about how the people who know us the longest can hurt us the most but how they also set the standard for love. With his signature generosity and eye for food sex love and the moments that make us the most human Bryan Washington returns with a brilliant new novel.
