It's all there & hits you like a knuckle sandwich in the new hardback book from HarperCollins that will be up for grabs at 7:30 tomorrow (Saturday) morning on Puffman Sports Trivia. All stories about SPORTS in America are stories about race & class. In Chris Leslie-Hynan's dazzling & provocative debut novel, "Ride Around Shining", the story of a white chauffeur's manipulation of his black employer, a forward for the Portland Trail Blazers, the most overlooked theme of the nation's sports pages becomes the stuff of the "best & one of the bravest" novel in years. "Ride Around Shining" is a 21st century inversion of what we've come to expect stories of race & class to look like, & a discomfiting portrait of envy & obsession. This thoughtful novel attempts to say the unsayable about white fixation on black culture, particularly black athletic culture, something so common in everyday life it has gone all but unaddressed. 1st caller in tomorrow morning with the correct answer to my sports trivia question pertaining to Major League Baseball WINS the book. Listen to WIN Saturday morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia.

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