New Boy

Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare’s Othello —a harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge—to a 1970s era elementary school playground.  Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day—so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can’t stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end o