On his graduation day from Renfield
High, Nick Park is determined to figure out if his heritage is the
cause of his abysmal luck with girls.
Beginning the novel as an unreliable and unknowingly
comic narrator, Nick Park struggles to fit into Renfield--an alarmingly
homogeneous Connecticut suburb as he grapples with his own ambivalence
towards his ethnicity and his neurotic love for girls. GIRLS FOR
BREAKFAST is a uniquely funny, unforgettable meditation on love
and race, family and friendship,acceptance and isolation.
Nick Park is an ironic, sharp-edged commentator on
the world of masculine angst, relationships and sex, and his commentary brings to the mix an intelligent, candid
and irreverent inquiry into what it means to be an "ethnic"
teenage boy in the white suburbs of late twentieth century America.
From killing a hamster in 3rd grade in front of his
entire class, to contracting illicit photos of his 8th grade crush,
to repeatedly lying about being a 4th degree black belt, Nick Park
is a character that you will remember long after you close this
book.
Read an excerpt of GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST
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