When We Ride (Hardcover)

Rex Ogle

ISBN 10: 1324052821 / ISBN 13: 9781324052821

Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2025

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Hardcover. Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That's why she gave him her car. Diego's best friend, Lawson, needs a ride-because Lawson is dealing. As long as Diego's not carrying, not selling, it's cool. It's just weed. But when Lawson starts carrying powder and pills and worse, their friendship is tested and their lives are threatened. As the lines between dealer and driver blur, everything Diego has worked for is jeopardized, and he faces a deadly reckoning with the choices he and his best friend have made. Award-winning memoirist and poet Rex Ogle's searing first novel-in-verse is an unforgettable story of the power and price of loyalty. Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how theyre tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When We Ride (Hardcover)
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1324052821
• ISBN 13: 9781324052821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse.

Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That’s why she gave him her car.

Diego’s best friend, Lawson, needs a ride―because Lawson is dealing. As long as Diego’s not carrying, not selling, it’s cool. It’s just weed.

But when Lawson starts carrying powder and pills and worse, their friendship is tested and their lives are threatened. As the lines between dealer and driver blur, everything Diego has worked for is jeopardized, and he faces a deadly reckoning with the choices he and his best friend have made.

Award-winning memoirist and poet Rex Ogle’s searing first novel-in-verse is an unforgettable story of the power and price of loyalty.

About the Author

Rex Ogle is the award-winning author of Free Lunch, Punching Bag, Abuela, Don’t Forget Me, Road Home, and, most recently, When We Ride. He lives in Los Angeles, California.