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Finley is the only white player on his high‑school varsity basketball team in a bleak Pennsylvania town ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African‑American student who has transferred from an elite private school in California, Finley finds that they share more than their differences, despite the town’s violence and the looming presence of organized crime.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Matthew Quick
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