The White Boy Shuffle
A Novel
by Paul Beatty
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Los Angeles, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
White Boy Shuffle is Man Bookerwinner Paul Beatty?s electrifying debut novel about teenagesurfbum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctan...
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