Name: Author Sameer Pandya
Start: 2025-05-10T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-10T17:30:00-07:00
Location: La Playa Books

Author Sameer Pandya

La Playa Books

La Playa Books invites you to meet author Sameer Pandya and hear about his latest book at our event on May 10, 2025!

Join us for an intimate discussion and signing with Sameer Pandya, author of 'Our Beautiful Boys' at La Playa Books! When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secrets—and the secrets of their parents—threaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of Members Only. Vikram Shastri has always been a good kid. He’s got a 4.6 GPA, listens to his parents, barely hits the parties, and is on track for a fancy college. But when he gets the chance to play on his high school football team, his world suddenly starts to shift. Basking in their recent victory, Vikram and his teammates, Diego and MJ, attend a party at an abandoned house in the Southern California foothills, located right below three ancient caves. They find themselves lost in the dark of night in one of the caves, carried away by male bravado, with a classmate who has annoyed them for years. But when the kid emerges with injuries that prove to be more serious than the all-star boys intended, they are suspended for the rest of the season and the boys’ parents are brought in to manage the situation. As the parents try to protect their boys, they are also managing their own complicated family and professional lives. While the parents work with, and against, each other to figure out the truth about that night, the boys must come to terms with how much of their own secrets they’re willing to reveal to clear their names. Insightful and deeply human, Our Beautiful Boys is about race and class, about parents trying to raise good boys in our fraught times, and the conflict we find when all of these slam together. It’s about the kids inside each parent, and the games the world makes each of us play.

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