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THE PLACE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LAUGH IBD

7.13 BOOKS
11 / 2018
9780991368723
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It&rsquo,s 2002 in Silicon Valley. 9/11&rsquo,s still fresh, the dot-com bubble has burst, and holy calamity is raining down on 14-year-old Chad Loudermilk. His father is about to lose his job, his mother isn&rsquo,t the same since Chad&rsquo,s grandma died, and as one of the few black kids at tony Palo Alto High School, Chad&rsquo,s starting to wonder about his birth parents. Next door lives dot-com mogul Scot MacAvoy, with his luxury SUV and his gardeners and his beautiful wife and his time to play video games with Chad, all making the Loudermilk family&rsquo,s struggle to stay afloat seem that much harder. It&rsquo,s going to be a tough year for the Loudermilks.THE PLACE YOU&rsquo,RE SUPPOSED TO LAUGH is wise and witty novel about the Silicon Valley that&rsquo,s not covered in the fawning features in The New York Times. It&rsquo,s a place where the working class, blended Loudermilk family grapple with issues of race and inequality, all while trying to keep a smile on their faces. In the spirit of the works of Celeste Ng and Angela Flournoy, this is a big-hearted page-turner that will make you laugh, cry, and think all at once. á

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