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Graham-Felsen, Sam.
Green
[Libby eBook] :
A Novel.
Random House Publishing Group,
2018.
Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2742kB.
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contemporary literary fiction.
Format: OverDrive Kindle Book.
coming of age fiction.
contemporary fiction.
Cultural Heritage.
literary fiction.
African American.
gentrification.
boston celtics.
relationships.
public school.
Coming of age.
middle school.
Contemporary.
first person.
family life.
Adolescence.
rodney king.
Friendship.
teen books.
basketball.
privilege .
inequality.
literature.
Education.
childhood.
introvert.
Bullying.
catholic.
Minority.
la riots.
judaism.
Hip Hop.
friends.
boyhood.
family.
Jewish.
Boston.
sports.
1990s.
black.
Drama.
teens.
race.
1992.
HTML:<b>A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator.</b><br /> <b> <br /> “A riot of language that’s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination.”</b>—<i>The Boston Globe</i><br /> Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won’t even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city’s best public high school—which, if practice tests are any indication, isn’t likely—he’ll be friendless for the foreseeable future.<br /> Nobody’s more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar’s a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave’s own gentrifying block, and he confounds Dave’s assumptions about black culture: He’s nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the gawky, white Larry Bird. Before long, Mar’s coming over to Dave’s house every afternoon to watch vintage basketball tapes and plot their hustle to Harvard. But as Dave welcomes his new best friend into his world, he realizes how little he knows about Mar’s. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he’s been given—and that Mar has not.<br /> Infectiously funny about the highs and lows of adolescence, and sharply honest in the face of injustice, Sam Graham-Felsen’s debut is a wildly original take on the American dream.<br /> <b>Praise for <i>Green</i></b><br /> “Prickly and compelling . . . Graham-Felsen lets boys be boys: messy-brained, impulsive, goatish, self-centered, outwardly gutsy but often inwardly terrified.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Editors’ Choice)</b><br /> “A coming-of-age tale of uncommon sweetness and feeling.”<b>—<i>The New Yorker</i></b><br /> <b><br /></b>“A fierce and brilliant book, comic, poignant, perfectly observed, and blazing with all the urgent fears and longings of adolescence.”<b>—Helen Macdonald, author of <i>H Is for Hawk</i></b><br /> “A heartfelt and unassumingly ambitious book.”<b>—<i>Slate</i></b>.
Literature.
Fiction.
Media Type: eBook.
Alex Award.
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