Boy 21
by Matthew Quick
- Paperback
- New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown, 2013
- 250 p. ; 21 cm.
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.