The White Boy Shuffle

A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.--Los Angeles Times

The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout

Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a divided, downtrodden people.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/07/2021
ISBN: 9781250808233
Pages: 240
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 59983 / White Boy Shuffle
Reading Level: 7.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13