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They come in all colors, a novel, Malcolm Hansen

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They come in all colors

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Malcolm Hansen

a novel

It's 1969 when fifteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins his first day at Claremont Prep, one of New York City's most prestigious boys' schools. His mother had uprooted her family from their hometown of Akersburg, Georgia a few years earlier, leaving behind Huey's white father and the racial unrest that ran deeper than the Chattahoochee. But forgetting his past is easier said than done. At Claremont, where the only other non-white person is the janitor, Huey realizes that racism can lurk beneath even the nicest school uniform. And after a slip of his temper, Huey finds himself on academic probation and facing legal charges. With his academic career in limbo, Huey examines his current predicament through the lens of his memories of growing up in Akersburg during the Civil Rights Movement"The Secret Life of Bees meets Paul Beatty in this bold debut novel, set between the Deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early 70s, about a biracial teenage boy whose new life in a big city is disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point"--, Provided by publisher