Memorial: A Novel

"Mike and Benson have been together for a while, but their relationship is rocky. When Mike learns his father is dying, he flies to Osaka to be with him – leaving Benson living in a one-bedroom apartment with Mike’s mother, a woman he’d never met before, now in town for a long visit. This is a novel that builds on 1,000 small moments between the characters as they cook, fight, co-exist and leave most things unsaid. It’s a quiet kind of book, with sparing language, but Memorial still says a lot: about who we consider family, where we call home, how we love, how we forgive and how sometimes forgiveness is the purest form of love. (There are also mouth-watering descriptions of food that will make you wish for a companion cookbook!)"