Brown Boy Nowhere: A Novel Cover:Hardcover Before they were born

Before they were born

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Brown Boy Nowhere: A Novel Cover:Hardcover Before they were bornWelcome to Nowhere, kid. Life starts here. Whats the problem? Sixteen year old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. Hes 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