Shawn Stewart Ruff is author of the novels GJS II (2016), Toss and Whirl and Pass (2010), Finlater (2008), winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction and the novella One/10th (2013), the first of ten small entwined works inspired by W. With a probing eye and tender touch Amanda explores Ruff's world in this secret coming-of-age classic about changing demographics, interracial friendship, sexual orientation, and first love. Moving and memorable, Finlater explores the overt racism that still plagues America. The book is fiction but draws closely from Ruff’s own childhood growing up black in the 1970s. In Shawn Stewart Ruff's debut novel Finlater, a Cincinatti housing project takes center stage, acting as a springboard for every aspect of protagonist Cliffy Douglass's young life. Who we are, and who we become in the world, is shaped by the places we were raised.
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