How Are You Going to Save Yourself LOWER GRADE his best friend

his best friend

past and present

and handed over her grandmother’s gold jewelry

and convicted bank robber David Mack’s college roommate and the only man to visit him in prison

Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own

How Are You Going to Save Yourself LOWER GRADE his best friendFour young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up to the minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves