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Name: Dodgers

Author: Bill Beverly
Year: 2016
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Award winners, Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Young adult

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ISBNs:
9781101903735
9781101903759
1101903732
1101903759

Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys-including East's hothead younger brother-to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, ultimately forcing him to grapple with his place in the world and decide what kind of man he wants to become.

Written in stark and unforgettable prose and featuring an array of surprising and memorable characters rendered with empathy and wit, Dodgers heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.