Palaver: A Novel Beck Dorey-Stein Three years after the birth

Three years after the birth of her youngest child

So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox

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

From one of America’s most beloved authors

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

Palaver: A Novel Beck Dorey-Stein Three years after the birthA 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,