1 option
How I Learned to Hate in Ohio : A Novel / David Stuart MacLean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLean, David, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Ohio--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Ohio.
- Ohio--Ethnic relations--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Social problem fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Black humor.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : The Overlook Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- A brilliant, hilarious, and ultimately devastating debut novel about how racial discord grows in AmericaIn 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 Ohioshines 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- First Part
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Second Part
- Third Part
- Last Part
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-68335-995-X
- OCLC:
- 1228038901
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.