A brilliant, hilarious, and ultimately devastating debut novel about how racial discord grows in America
David Stuart MacLean is a winner of the PEN Emerging Writer Award for Nonfiction and author of the award-winning memoir The Answer to the Riddle Is Me. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, Guernica, and on This American Life. He has taught creative writing at the University of Chicago, Columbia College, and the School of the Art Institute; is cofounder of the Poison Pen Reading Series in Houston; and was a Fulbright Scholar to India. Raised in central Ohio, he now lives in Chicago. How I Learned to Hate in Ohio is his debut novel.
“A sharp debut...observant and piercing set pieces about suburban
malaise and economic drift punctuated with starker themes...
MacLean distinguishes himself with his voice — that is, Barry's
voice, at first sarcastic and distant, then earnest and ultimately
heartbroken.”
*Minneapolis Star-Tribune*
“MacLean has mastered the tones of striving diffidence in his teen
characters as their worlds fall apart at home with badly behaving
adults, anger simmers below the surface of daily life, and racial
violence erupts. How I Learned to Hate in Ohio becomes not only a
finely observed novel but one with a deep social conscience.”
*National Book Review*
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