Our Beautiful Boys

When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student,their secretsΓÇöand the secrets of their parentsΓÇöthreaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of raceclassand privilege from the author of Members Only. Vikram Shastri has always been a good kid. HeΓÇÖs got a 4.6 GPAlistens to his parentsbarely hits the partiesand is on track for a fancy college. But when he gets the chance to play on his high school football teamhis world suddenly starts to shift. Basking in their recent victoryVikram and his teammates Diego and MJ attend a party at an abandoned house in the Southern California foothillslocated right below three ancient caves. They find themselves lost in the dark of night in one of the cavescarried away by male bravadowith a classmate who has annoyed them for years. But when the kid emerges with injuries that prove to be more serious than the all-star boys intendedthey are suspended for the rest of the seasonand the boysΓÇÖ parents are brought in to manage the situation. As the parents try to protect their boysthey are also managing their own complicated family and professional lives. While the parents work withand againstone another to figure out the truth about that nightthe boys must come to terms with how much of their own secrets theyΓÇÖre willing to reveal to clear their names. Insightful and deeply humanOur Beautiful Boys is about race and classparents trying to raise good boys in our fraught timesand the conflict we find when all of these slam together. ItΓÇÖs about the kids inside each parent and the games the world makes each of us play.