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Brown Boy Nowhere : A Novel Sheeryl Lim9781542027779Trade PaperbackYoung Adult Fiction / Diversity & Multicultural Young Adult Fiction / Coming Of AgeYoung Adult Fiction / Boys & M en / Pinoy Pride Welcome to Nowhere, kid. Life starts here. What’s the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. He’s been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents’ new diner and, as the only Asian in his all-white school, being trolled as “brown boy” by small-minded, thick-necked jocks. Show more