The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty

The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty

The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout

"A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time."--Los Angeles Times

Paul 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."

Slumberland, Tuff, and The White Boy Shuffle are among Paul Beatty's novels, as are Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce, his poetry collections. Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Comedy is his edited collection. For his novel The Sellout, he became the first American to receive the Man Booker Prize in 2016. He won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literary Award in 2017. He currently resides in New York City.