The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel by Paul Beatty (Paperback)

The White Boy Shuffle is the debut novel by Paul Beatty, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sellout. Told by Gunnar Kaufman, a bookish teenager whose family moves from Santa Monica to a tough Los Angeles neighborhood, it becomes a wildly comic and biting satire about race, identity, poetry and basketball in America. Paperback from Picador.