Balzer + Bray

9780062824110

STARRED REVIEW

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

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Review of ‘The Field Guide to the North American Teenager’

Following his parents’ divorce and his mother’s decision to take a job at the University of Texas, black Canadian teen Norris moves to perpetually muggy, burnt sienna-colored Austin, Texas. Leaving behind his ambivalent father and his only friend in Montreal, Norris is catapulted into a typical American public school midway through his junior year, and…

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