Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Oct 2021

Benson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation... Funny and profound, Memorial is about family in all its strange forms, becoming who you're supposed to be and the outer limits of love.