Here Come the Dogs

✍ Scribed by Omar Musa

• Book ID: 112091470
• Publisher: The New Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 297 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620971192

✦ Synopsis

A "brilliant [novel] . . . Immediate and compelling, this one deserves a place on the shelf next to Trainspottingor The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (Cleaver Magazine).

In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgrounds--one Samoan, one Macedonian, one not sure--are ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority, and charm; a failed basketball player down for the moment but surely not out. His half-brother, Jimmy, bounces along in his wake, underestimated, waiting for his chance to announce himself. Aleks, their childhood friend, loves his mates, his family, and his homeland and would do anything for them. The question is, does he know where to draw the line?

Solomon, Jimmy, and Aleks are way out on the fringe of Australia, looking for a way in. Hip hop, basketball, and graffiti...