Our Beautiful Boys
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'A profound meditation on class, privilege and masculinity' Observer
'An insightful, nuanced story ... I couldn't put it down' Charles Yu
'Timely and timeless ... A book about the lies we knowingly or unwittingly tell ourselves' New York Times
I know my son. I know what he is and what he's not capable of.
Revelling in the triumph of a high school football win, MJ, Vikram and Diego find themselves at an ill-fated party, on a night that ends with the school bully in hospital. When no one comes forward with the truth of what actually happened, all three teenage "all stars" are suspended for the rest of the season, their futures suddenly uncertain.
In the aftermath, the families gather to assess the damage to their children's prospects, their reputations and their own relationships. As other secrets begin to bubble to the surface, each parent attempts to navigate the crisis at hand, confronted with their own inner turmoil and the question none of them want to face: how well can you ever truly know your own child?
Our Beautiful Boys is a page-turning and incisive novel about masculinity, race, education and privilege, and the conflict that arises when all these collide.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Pandya's riveting latest (after Members Only), a Southern California high school is roiled when three football players are accused of assaulting a classmate. Running back Vikram Shastri, a junior and first-generation Indian American, joins the team late in the season and scores two touchdowns in his first game. His celebratory dinner with cocaptains Diego Cruz and MJ Berringer is crashed by bully and drug dealer Stanley Kincaid, who invites the three to a party in a former Native American cave dwelling. There, a drunk Stanley mouths off and lunges at Vikram. He and the others fend off Stanley and leave him in the cave with a split lip. When Stanley emerges later that night, however, he's mysteriously in much worse shape. After he's hospitalized, the school principal begins an investigation and calls in the parents, and the boys forge a pact to stay silent. As tensions ignite between the families along class and racial lines, the boys' pact breaks down and the plot ramps up. Pandya explores the controversy from multiple angles as it affects Vikram's father's chances of moving up at his tech job; mars the reputation of Diego's single mother, a Latin American historian at UCLA; and exacerbates hidden tensions in the seemingly perfect marriage of MJ's wealthy white parents. This is a stunner.
