{"product_id":"the-white-boy-shuffle-9781250808233","title":"The White Boy Shuffle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A bombastic coming-of-age novel....\u003ci\u003eThe White Boy Shuffle\u003c\/i\u003e has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Beatty\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eTuff\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlumberland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/i\u003e, and the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eBig Bank Take Little Bank\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJoker, Joker, Deuce\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the editor of \u003ci\u003eHokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2016, he became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2017, he was the winner the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610074485010,"sku":"9781250808233","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0281916-6eb0-4df3-9930-29e6355abc8d.jpg?v=1732332882","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-white-boy-shuffle-9781250808233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}