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Dodgers

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Dodgers

By: Bill Beverly
Narrated by: JD Jackson
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 Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger.

Itis the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys—including East's hothead younger brother—to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, ultimately forcing him to grapple with his place in the world and decide what kind of man he wants to become.

Written in stark and unforgettable prose and featuring an array of surprising and memorable characters rendered with empathy and wit, Dodgers heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.

Winner of the LA TIMES Book Prize of 2017 for Best Mystery/Thriller
Winner of the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2016 for Best Crime Novel of the Year
Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2016 for Best Debut Crime Novel
Winner of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
Finalist for the PEN/Heminghway Award 2017 for Debut Fiction
Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal 2017 for Excellence in Fiction
Nominated for the Edgar Award 2017 for Best First Novel African American Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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A good story but I found the characters fairly unlikable and I didn't feel I could or indeed wanted to invest any more thought than I had to in considering their journey and how they changed individually based on their experiences.

Ambles along

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Brilliant story and so well told. A must read! We loved it as we journeyed along.

Wonderful

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Great journey, not what I expected story-wise but gripping all the way through. Highly recommended. Easy to relate to characters and provoked much thought and made me experience a vast array of emotions.

Absolutely Fantastic

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Dodgers seemed to be right at the top of every best of list from 2016 and I'm a sucker for a coming of age story so this one excited me.

After the cops hit the Boxes and tragedy strikes, we follow East and his band of mischief makers on their trip from LA to Wisconsin to silence a whistleblower. East is the nephew of the gang’s top man and he is sent on the mission to see if he is truly "in".

The story develops from gang life in LA and the road trip to the aftermath of the mission. It starts off great but i found the rest of the first half pretty slow. I Loved the second half though, even if it didn't quite live up to the hype.

JD Jackson's narration is good but a bit clunky. The dialogue and accents were great but you are always aware that he is reading

East's trip

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very very grim. an early teens boy forced to
grow up too quickly after a murder

very very grim.

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