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How I Learned to Hate in Ohio : A Novel by David Stuart MacLean [MacLean, David Stuart] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Ohio shines an uncomfortable light...

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Author

David Stuart MacLean [MacLean, David Stuart]

Publisher

The Overlook Press, an imprint of ABRAMS

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9782020932363

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction