How I Learned to Hate in Ohio: A Novel

A brilliant, hilarious, and ultimately devastating debut novel about how racial discord grows in America, “moving and heartbreaking . . . wickedly funny and sad and sobering all at once” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Gillian Flynn).

In the rural Ohio of the late 1980s, social outcast Barry Nadler begins his freshman year of high school with low expectations. He resolves to go unnoticed as much as possible, until his world is upended by the arrival of Gurbaksh Singh—Gary for short—a...