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A brilliant, hilarious, and ultimately devastating debut novel
about how racial discord grows in America In the rural Ohio of the
late 1980s, social outcast Barry Nadler begins his freshman year of
high school with low expectations. He resolves to go unnoticed as
much as possible, until his world is upended by the arrival of
Gurbaksh Singh, Gary for short, a Sikh teenager. Charismatic and
wildly conspicuous, Gurbaksh befriends Barry and pulls him into a
series of startling and uncharacteristic exploits.But as Barry
becomes popular-adjacent at school, the rest of his world starts to
unravel. His mom's trips for her job with Marriott seem to keep her
away longer. His philosophy professor dad is dealing with
something. And soon his classmates and neighbors begin to react to
the presence of the Singhs, a family so different from theirs.
Through bitingly comic asides and wry observations, Barry becomes
increasingly tuned into the seeds of xenophobia and racism finding
fertile soil in this insular community, until tragedy unfolds.In
bracing prose that captures the authentic voice of a heartrending
awakening, David Stuart MacLean's How I Learned to Hate in Ohio
shines an uncomfortable light on the roots of white middle-American
discontent. At once darkly funny and surprisingly moving, this is a
humane, provocative, and undeniably resonant debut novel for our
divided world.
A brilliant, hilarious, and ultimately devastating debut novel
about how racial discord grows in America In 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 find 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 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.
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