# New Boy

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- Book: [New Boy](https://www.bookquiver.com/tracy-chevalier/new-boy) ([New Boy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tracy-chevalier/new-boy.md))
- Authors: [Tracy Chevalier](https://www.bookquiver.com/tracy-chevalier)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 23 min
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- ISBN: 978-14-7354-935-7
- Published: 2017-05-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 23 min

## Description

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of New Boy by Tracy Chevalier, read by Prentice Onayemi. '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.