Palaver: A Novel Beck Dorey-Stein In It’s Hard for Me

In It’s Hard for Me to Live With Me

Goat thinks he’s pretty great -- in fact

Can she take care of these wacky kids as they prepare for show & tell without getting caught in their wildly inventive traps

and a quest for agency when the illusions of life-as-you-know-it fall away

and it’s up to the Guardians to ‘gently escort’ them off the premises… and unmask a wartime traitor while they’re at it

Palaver: A Novel Beck Dorey-Stein In It’s Hard for MeA life affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award winning Bryan Washington. In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. Hes entangled in a sexual relationship with a married man, and while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his family in Houston, particularly his mother, whose preference for the sons oft troubled homophobic brother, Chris,