Harry Sylvester Bird Av Chinelo Okparanta

<p><strong>"Disarmingly funny." - <em>The New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>From the award-winning author of <em>Under the Udala Trees</em> and <em>Happiness, Like Water</em> comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America.</strong></p><p>Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have quite a few secrets of their own. To Harry, they represent everything wrong with this country. And his small town isn’t any better. He witnesses racial profiling, graffitied swastikas, and White Power signs on his walk home from school. He can’t wait until he’s old enough to leave. When he finally is, he moves straight to New York City, where he feels he can finally live out his true inner self.</p><p>In the city, he meets and falls in love

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