The title and marketing of Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, Victim, promise a critique of the social-justice values that have come to predominate in works released by Big Five publishers. The book delivers that, plus something more. Victim is the story of Javier Perez, a Bronx-born kid of Puerto Rican origin who goes to Ivy-equivalent “Donlan College” in upstate New York, where he learns to cynically exploit his skin color, ethnicity, and background of hardship to achieve success, first on campus, and then in the New York media after graduation.
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