The White Boy Shuffle — Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty goes upside your head doing the white boy shuffle -- a simple side-to-side step -- and then down the other side with this exuberant and engaging debut novel.

A Los Angeles Times best-seller, The White Boy Shuffle uses explosive humor and startling insights to trace Gunnar Kaufman's life from a smart-alecky, ashy-legged beach bum in Santa Monica, to a culturally broke-as-hell, not-too-cool black guy in West Los Angeles, to a high school basketball star, to a one-class-attending college student, to a mail-order bride's husband, and then on to a reluctant, foster-parent messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people." This expansive satirical tale will cut, bite, and mix its way into your heart and mind.