![]() However, he slowly develops a friendship with a Jewish classmate Noah Baumgarten. The atmosphere there is tense along both racial and socio-economic lines, and Cliff’s very public mistake at the city-wide spelling bee, despite his near-obsession with spelling, has made him a laughing stock among his classmates. ![]() Living in the Findlater Gardens housing project with his mother and two brothers, the novel opens with the return of his long absent father, Clifford Sr.Ĭliffy’s difficulties as his family attempts to reconfigure their lives around this unexpected arrival - and the uncomfortable eroticism of Senior’s penchant for lounging on the couch wearing only a pair of tight bikini briefs - are only slightly alleviated at school. A coming-of-age story and tale of first love set in early 1970s Cincinnati, Shawn Stewart Ruff’s beautiful, LLA-winning debut novel Finlater (Quote Editions) is narrated by 13-year-old African-American Cliffy Douglas. ![]()
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