Hope is hard to find in Houston, unless you just caught a chupacabra. Then you might go viral.
Of course, maybe this chupacabra is just a raccoon or something? These two boys aren’t sure.
In Bryan Washington’s new collection of connected short stories, Lot,the boys and dealers, the hustlers and hurricane survivors all intersect in the hot Houston streets—but home isn’t any easier.
A whole apartment complex watches the doomed affair between a married woman and her white neighbor. A dealer’s young apprentice watches behind the wheel when the dealer sees someone from his past.
And a boy who narrates several stories struggles with a father who’s first absent, then gone; a mother with a restaurant she may not be able to keep afloat; a sister with an eye on the exit sign; and an abusive, homophobic brother. When he comes out and his brother slaps him, he doesn’t feel it. PLEASE READ
