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.

Author: Paul Beatty
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.46w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9781250808233
ISBN10: 1250808235
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | African American & Black | General

About the Author
Paul Beatty is the author of the novels Tuff, Slumberland and The Sellout, and the poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He was the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. In 2016, he became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. In 2017, he was the winner the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award. He lives in New York City.