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 is the author of the novel Members Only, a finalist for the California Book Award and an NPR "Books We Love" of 2020, and the story collection The Blind Writer, longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. His cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Atlantic, Salon and Sports Illustrated. A recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship, he is currently an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Pandya writes with elegance and empathy, weaving together these characters' lives into an insightful, nuanced story of class, identity and friendship.Our Beautiful Boys is as thought-provoking as it is compelling. I couldn't put it down