Our Beautiful Boys

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I know my son. I know what he is and what hes not capable of.

Revelling in the triumph of a high school football win, three newly friended boys find themselves at an ill-fated party a party which ends with the school bully, Stanley, in the hospital.

In the space of one disastrous evening, the futures of the three teenage all stars are thrown in the balance. MJ, Vikram and Diego are suspended for the football season, much to their shock and dismay. As their families gather to assess the damage to their own relationships, their reputations, and their childrens futures each parent is confronted with their own inner turmoil, reacting, judging and finally confronting the crisis at hand.

Our Boys is a page-turning and incisive novel about masculinity, race, education and privilege, and the conflict that arises when all these collide. It asks the question that every parent has, at one time or another, contended with: how well can you ever truly know your own child

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PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR

"Sameer Pandyas stories are fine-tuned and precise, and carry an emotional load that breaks open inside us in ways that are, by turns, delicate and explosive

-- Gretel Ehrlich, author of FACING THE WAVE
Pandya writes with grace and authority about characters revealed to us through their fears and dreams, mistakes and successes, longing and regrets -- Keith Scribner, author of THE OREGON EXPERIMENT

Author Bio

Sameer Pandya is the author of Members Only and the story collection The Blind Writer, which was long listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His fiction, commentary, and cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including the Atlantic, Salon, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and Narrative Magazine. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.