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How I Learned to Hate in Ohio

By Maclean, David Stuart

How I Learned to Hate in Ohio

By Maclean, David Stuart

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A brilliant, hilarious, and ultimately devastating debut novel about how racial discord grows in America In late-1980s rural Ohio, bright but mostly friendless Barry Nadler begins his freshman year of high school with the goal of going unnoticed as much as possible. But his world is upended by the arrival of Gurbaksh, Gary for short, a Sikh teenager who moves to his small town and instantly befriends Barry and, in Gatsby-esque fashion, pulls him into a series of increasingly unlikely adventures. As their friendship deepens, Barry’s world begins to unravel, and his classmates and neighbors react to the presence of a family so different from theirs. Through darkly comic and bitingly intelligent asides and wry observations, Barry reveals how the seeds of xenophobia and racism ¿nd fertile soil in this insular community, and in an easy, graceless, unintentional slide, tragedy unfolds. How I Learned to Hate in Ohio shines an uncomfortable light on the roots of white middle-American discontent and the beginnings of the current cultural war. It is at once bracingly funny, dark, and surprisingly moving, an undeniably resonant debut novel for our divided world.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2021-01-19
Publication Date:
2020-10-13
Publisher:
Abrams
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1419747193
ISBN13:
9781419747199
Weight:
492 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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