Masterful... Washington lays it all out with the control and artistry of a ballet choreographer
New York Times
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
Times Literary Supplement
A beautiful novel... Sensual, sometimes sad, ... Read moreultimately hopeful
The Telegraph
A sensual immersion in loss, grief food and sex. Compelling... Deeply felt... Beautiful
Financial Times
Achingly and beautifully etched... Washington has a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while offering his characters - and his readers - space for self-forgiveness, hope and nourishment
Washington Post
One of the best books I've read this year. Truly masterful
Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women
Family Meal is filled with love-for the sensual pleasure of life, the places that we call home, the beauty of the people around us. This novel will break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy. It takes a generous writer to show us the world in this way, and Bryan Washington is one of our best.
Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind
A joy. So sensual about food, sex and the physicality of grief... Absolutely irresistible
Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days
Family Meal is everything that Bryan Washington's work has promised so far: a fiercely written, by turns heartbreaking, terrifying and horny gaze on American masculinity, friendship and love, always with a clear sense of place and environment. Its take on grief and desire, of selfishness and generosity, and of the ways in which the Black masc body might be dismantled, or caressed, is sex-positive and thrillingly true-to-life. I found refuge in it, and will always fall hard on anything Washington writes.
Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk
Brimming with food, sex, joy, intimacy, hella specific jokes, and the broken tools that we inherit to save our lives, Family Meal is nourishment. An absolutely gorgeous book.
Mary H.K. Choi, author of Yolk
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