Green: A Novel

Green: A Novel

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.
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â€œA riot of language thatâ€™s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination.â€â€”The Boston Globe

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 wonâ€™t even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the cityâ€™s best public high schoolâ€”which, if practice tests are any indication, isnâ€™t likelyâ€”heâ€™ll be friendless for the foreseeable future.

Nobodyâ€™s more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Marâ€™s a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Daveâ€™s own gentrifying block, and he confounds Daveâ€™s assumptions about black culture: Heâ€™s nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the gawky, white Larry Bird. Before long, Marâ€™s coming over to Daveâ€™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 Marâ€™s. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks heâ€™s been givenâ€”and that Mar has not.

Infectiously funny about the highs and lows of adolescence, and sharply honest in the face of injustice, Sam Graham-Felsenâ€™s debut is a wildly original take on the American dream.

Praise for Green

â€œPrickly and compelling . . . Graham-Felsen lets boys be boys: messy-brained, impulsive, goatish, self-centered, outwardly gutsy but often inwardly terrified.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review (Editorsâ€™ Choice)

â€œA coming-of-age tale of uncommon sweetness and feeling.â€â€”The New Yorker

â€œA fierce and brilliant book, comic, poignant, perfectly observed, and blazing with all the urgent fears and longings of adolescence.â€â€”Helen Macdonald, author ofÂ H Is for Hawk

â€œA heartfelt and unassumingly ambitious book.â€â€”Slate
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-01-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399591143

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-01-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399591143

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