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Our beautiful boys : a novel / Sameer Pandya.
"When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secrets-and the secrets of their parents-threaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of Members Only"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593726167 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 386 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Subject: | Family secrets > Fiction. Football players > Fiction. High school students > Fiction. Racism > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Social classes > Fiction. California, Southern > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Pandy | 31681010411148 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Vikram and teammates Diego and MJ celebrate a football victory at a party in the Southern California foothills below ancient caves and get lost in one of the caves with an annoying classmate, and when the kid emerges with serious injuries, the boysâ parents try to figure out the truth. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
"When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secrets-and the secrets of their parents-threaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of Members Only"-- - Random House, Inc.
When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secretsâand the secrets of their parentsâthreaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of Members Only.
âTimely and timeless . . . gorgeous yet understated storytelling . . . The struggles in Our Beautiful Boys are not exceptional dilemmas but rather uncomfortably common situations.ââNic Stone, The New York Times Book Review
Vikram Shastri has always been a good kid. Heâs got a 4.6 GPA, listens to his parents, barely hits the parties, and is on track for a fancy college. But when he gets the chance to play on his high school football team, his world suddenly starts to shift. Basking in their recent victory, Vikram and his teammates Diego and MJ attend a party at an abandoned house in the Southern California foothills, located right below three ancient caves. They find themselves lost in the dark of night in one of the caves, carried away by male bravado, with a classmate who has annoyed them for years.
But when the kid emerges with injuries that prove to be more serious than the all-star boys intended, they are suspended for the rest of the season, and the boysâ parents are brought in to manage the situation. As the parents try to protect their boys, they are also managing their own complicated family and professional lives. While the parents work with, and against, one another to figure out the truth about that night, the boys must come to terms with how much of their own secrets theyâre willing to reveal to clear their names.
Insightful and deeply human, Our Beautiful Boys is about race and class, parents trying to raise good boys in our fraught times, and the conflict we find when all of these slam together. Itâs about the kids inside each parent and the games the world makes each of us play.
