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” Memorial” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. 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 transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted. Without Mike’s immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it.

Brief Summary Memorial by Bryan Washington

The story is a jumble of stream-of-consciousness on steroids – flipping back and forth in time, memories and ideas like a metronome. The story would have been more powerful had the past memories been collected into chapters and strategically placed between current events instead of being sprinkled like salt over the entire storyline. The structure of the book also begs for further editing. Benson’s tale is told in dozens of chapters – some with as few as 6 words, while Mike’s tale is a non-stop belching of a single chapter over 130 pages long. If this was the author’s attempt to distinguish the voices of the two main characters, he failed.Further, the book smacks of a lazy high-schooler who took drastic steps to stretch out the text merely to meet the requisite page length. First, the vast majority of sentences (short ones at that) are all separate paragraphs. It’s an annoying read.