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Houston. À l’angle de Westheimer et Montrose, un homme atteint du VIH fait le trottoir ; de balcon en balcon, des voisins fomentent de révéler à un mari les infidélités de sa femme ; sur le terrain de baseball, une équipe s’entraîne parmi les débris de l’ouragan Harvey ; tandis qu’au premier étage d’un restaurant de tacos, un jeune homme se cherche et cherche sa place dans cette ville mouvante.

Bryan Washington nous offre ici un aperçu bouleversant de ce qui constitue une communauté, une famille et une vie. Ensembles raconte l’amour sous toutes ses formes.

"Phenomenal" --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals

"Brilliant" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun

“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys.

Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra.

Bryan Washington's brilliant, viscerally drawn world vibrates with energy, wit, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.