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Benson, a Black daycare teacher, and Mike, a Japanese American chef, are drifting apart in Houston when Mike flies to Osaka to see his dying father, leaving Benson to share their apartment with Mike's mother.
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Funny Boy
Arjie, a Tamil boy growing up in Colombo in the 1970s and 80s, discovers he is gay as the tensions that will become Sri Lanka's civil war tighten around his family.
John of John
In the late 1990s, John-Calum, a twenty-two-year-old art school graduate, comes home to the family croft on the Isle of Harris when his father, a weaver and a deacon in a strict Presbyterian church, summons him with news that his grandmother is dying, though she seems in no hurry to go.
Mostly Dead Things
After her father's death, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy shop in Tampa, while her mother starts posing the stuffed animals in explicit tableaux and her brother falls apart.
Love in the Big City
A young gay writer in Seoul makes his way through flatmates, flings, and illness, in a novel-in-stories about finding and losing love in the city.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
A woman develops a tender relationship with her former high school teacher over sake and seasonal food.
Stone Fruit
A young queer couple and the niece they love their way towards parenting slip, through a divorce, past the fragile arrangements that held them together.
A Quiet Life
When their novelist father takes a teaching post in California and their mother goes with him, twenty-year-old Ma-chan is left in Tokyo to keep house for her younger brother and her mentally disabled older brother, Eeyore, who composes music.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
Real Americans
In New York in 1999 Lily Chen, twenty-two and the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is scraping by on an unpaid internship when she falls for Matthew, the son of an enormously rich family. In 2021 their teenage son, Nick, who knows little of where he comes from, goes looking for his father.
Exalted
In Los Angeles, Emily runs an astrology meme account that charges people to read their charts, and Dawn is one of her most devoted followers, as both women's lives, relationships and finances near collapse.
Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.
Roaming
Three college friends meet up for a spring-break week in New York and watch the triangle of their attention bend, crack, and set in a new shape.