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Title: New Boy
Subtitle: Othello Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Narrator: Prentice Onayemi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-17
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.
Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.
The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime and practise a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Watching over the shoulders of four 11-year-olds - Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant 'girlfriend', Mimi - Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling.
