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Riverhead

9780593421093

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Family Meal

Bryan Washington shows us characters at their most vulnerable, using food culture to explore conflict, desire, pleasure and passion.

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Review of ‘Family Meal’

For Bryan Washington, cooking, eating together or even refusing a home-cooked meal has far-reaching emotional repercussions. In his new novel, Family Meal, the relationships among friends are defined by the food they prepare and strengthened by the meals they share. Food provides the ultimate opportunity for community and witness against a backdrop of personal hardship…

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