Our Beautiful Boys - Pandya, Sameer
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Revelling in the triumph of a high school football win, MJ, Vikram and Diego find themselves at an ill-fated party, and in the space of one disastrous evening the futures of the three teenage "all stars" are thrown in the balance. As their families gather to assess the damage, each parent is confronted with their own inner turmoil, reacting, judging and finally confronting the crisis at hand. Our Beautiful Boys is a page-turning and incisive novel about masculinity, race, education and privilege, and the conflict that arises when all these collide. It asks the question that every parent has,…mehr

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Revelling in the triumph of a high school football win, MJ, Vikram and Diego find themselves at an ill-fated party, and in the space of one disastrous evening the futures of the three teenage "all stars" are thrown in the balance. As their families gather to assess the damage, each parent is confronted with their own inner turmoil, reacting, judging and finally confronting the crisis at hand.
Our Beautiful Boys is a page-turning and incisive novel about masculinity, race, education and privilege, and the conflict that arises when all these collide. It asks the question that every parent has, at one time or another, contended with: how well can you ever truly know your own child?
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Sameer Pandya
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Timely and timeless ... Carefully plays with assumptions, expectations and subversions ... Pandya presents flawed but understandable people trying to navigate a murky situation with high stakes: the futures of these boys. The second thing that stands out is Pandya's gorgeous yet understated storytelling ... Above all else, Our Beautiful Boys is a book about the lies we knowingly or unwittingly tell ourselves. This is a book that highlights how we internalize and project certain perceptions, and what we're willing to do and say so we can feel accepted ... I was reminded with every twist and turn in this story – and they are plentiful – that each of us is a cave of our own