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“Cool and concise; a talent to watch.” —Jay McInerney author of Bright Lights, Big City

“You’re going to get papercuts, you’re going to turn the pages so fast.” —Brad Thor, Today

A gripping debut from an electrifying new voice about an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamourous parties and sudden consequences, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest.

An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.

It’s just weeks after the death of his be

Rob Franklin

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