FAMILY MEAL

From the bestselling author of Memorial a novel that will break your heart twice over with sadness sure but more unexpectedly with joy Rumaan Alam Growing up TJ was Cam s boy next door When Cam needed a home TJ s parents Mae and Jin took him in Their family bakery became Cam s safe place Until he left and it wasn t anymore Years later Cam s world is falling apart The love of his life Kai is gone but his ghost keeps haunting Cam and won t let go And Cam s not sure he wants to let go not sure he s ready When he has a chance to return to his home town to work in a gay bar clinging on in a changing city landscape he takes it Back in the same place as TJ they circle each other warily their banter electric with an undercurrent of betrayal drawn together despite past and current drama Family is family But TJ is no longer the same person Cam left behind he s had his own struggles The quiet low key queer kid the one who stayed home TJ s not sure how to navigate Cam utterly cool completely devastated and self destructing crashing back into his world When things said or left unsaid become so insurmountable that they devour us from within hope and sustenance and friendship can come from the most unlikely source Nou