![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins, from Benson’s point of view, as Mike leaves for Japan to find and care for his father at the same moment that his mother arrives for a visit in Houston. ![]() In addition, they also work together to create a narrative arc that echoes the arc of the book itself. Here, the photographs-which are attributed to Washington on the copyright page-are used, in part, to consider how we use images to communicate. Photographs in a novel are always a bit of a surprise they cause the reader to consider the blurring of fiction and nonfiction, the way in which the real world is inserted into the fictive. Over the course of the novel, as the two men separate and reunite, eight black-and-white photographs appear alongside the text. Benson is a Black daycare worker, and Mike is a Japanese American chef when we meet them, it is clear that their relationship of four years or so is faltering. Bryan Washington’s beautiful and heartfelt novel Memorial, published last fall, explores the relationship between Benson and Mike, two young men who live together in Houston. ![]()
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