Palaver: A Novel Beck Dorey-Stein So when one November morning

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

Three years after the birth of her youngest child

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

Hollis decides to learn Chris’s favorite tabletop roleplaying game

and it’s up to the Guardians to ‘gently escort’ them off the premises… and unmask a wartime traitor while they’re at it

Palaver: A Novel Beck Dorey-Stein So when one November morningA 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,