Boy 21 /

Quick, M.

Boy 21 / Boy21. Boy twenty-one. by Matthew Quick. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown, 2013. - 250 p. ; 21 cm.

Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.

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Emotional problems of teenagers--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Gangsters--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Violence--Fiction.
Basketball stories.
Friendship--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.


Pennsylvania--Fiction.