Lot Style:Paperback sparks fly

sparks fly

and surprising allusions

A teenage boy is found murdered in a field near a small Kansas town

When his younger siblings and parents begin to irritate him on vacation

grains and legumes

Lot Style:Paperback sparks flyBy: Bryan Washington In the city of Houston a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball