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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Dagger Award | 2016 | Winner | “Bill Beverly's debut won for its devastating portrait of young men trapped between violence and hope, its spare literary style, and the audacity of its road novel structure.” |
About This Book
East, a fifteen-year-old lookout for a Los Angeles drug house, travels across America with three other gang members on a mission to kill a witness, in this haunting road novel about youth, violence, and reinvention.
About the Author
Bill Beverly is an American author and English professor who won the CWA Gold Dagger for his debut novel Dodgers (2016). The novel follows a group of young gang members from Los Angeles driving across America for a job, and was widely praised as a singular debut combining crime fiction with literary ambition. Beverly teaches at Trinity University in Washington, D.C. Read more →
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