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Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years—good years—but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary…

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Editions

8 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English
    Atlantic Books · 9781838951320
  • Other · English · 2021
    Thorndike Press Large Print · 447 pages · 9781432885120
  • Other · English · 2021
    Atlantic Books, Limited · 9781838950101
  • Other · English · 2021
    Penguin Publishing Group · 384 pages · 9780593087282
  • Other · English · 2021
    Atlantic Books, Limited · 9781838950095
  • Other · English · 2020
    Penguin Publishing Group · 303 pages · 9780593087275
American literatureLGBTQ novelsStonewall Book AwardsNew York Times reviewedFiction, lgbtq+, generalFiction, coming of ageGay couplesFiction