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Show Them You’re Good
- A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Christian Barillas, Tim Chiou, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Jonathan Todd Ross, Gary Tiedemann
The four teenage boys are high school students at two very different schools in the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. In “the brilliant work of investigative journalism…full of compassion, understanding, and humour” (Publishers Weekly, star rating) Jeff Hobbs brilliantly captures the challenges and triumphs of becoming a celebrity to become a young person facing the future — both their own culture and the culture in which they live — in contemporary America.
Combining complex social issues with individual experiences, Hobbs takes us deep into the world of these boys. The quartet consists of Carlos, the youngest son of an undocumented delivery man, who wants to follow in his brother’s footsteps and attend an Ivy League university; Tio harbors ambitions of becoming an engineer despite his father’s distrust of him; Jon, a devoted member of the academic pentathlon, struggles to distance himself from his mother, who is suffocating him with her own expectations; and Owen, who grew up in a wealthy family, couldn’t take academia seriously but knew he had to.
Consisting of portraits of supporting characters — friends, colleagues, parents, teachers, and girlfriends — this “uniquely illuminating” immersive journalism (Booklist) masterpiece is destined to spark conversations. stories about class, race, expectations, cultural divisions, and even the concept of fate. Hobbs’ portrayal of these young men is not only revelatory and relevant, but moving, eloquent, and indelibly powerful.
Jeff Hobbs has done it again! He is truly one of the greatest storytellers of our generation. The story of these incredible young men who overcame great hardships brought tears to my eyes.
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