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Book SynopsisLeroy Upton has come a long way from the sun-baked working-class neighbourhood in Bakersfield where he grew up. The son of an oil-field labourer, he is now a professor at a small Northern Californian college. Life is about to deliver Leroy and his comfortable existence a series of challenges.
Trade ReviewA tough, courageous novel."" —Gerald Rosen, author of
Growing Up Bronx""… a very funny and poignant account of three generations in a California family that is as familiar as our own next-door neighbors, and as strange as any folks we might ever meet in real life. ... The saga of his beloved nuclear family ought to be inspiring to anyone with ailing parents and wayward children. Straight White Male will make you laugh so hard you'll want to cry."" —Jonah Raskin, Professor,
Sonoma State University and book reviewer,
Santa Rosa Press Democrat""This superb novel confirms Gerald Haslam's standing as the most important writer to emerge from California's Central Valley (his Other California) since Steinbeck.
Straight White Male is indeed the straight story of the enduring value of married love, family, friends, community, hard work, maturity, forgiveness, and basic human decency. This book makes one suspect it just may be okay again to be a man."" —Gerald Locklin,
Come Back, Bear and Last Tango in Long Beach
