Kings of the Crown

by
Eric Andre Wingo

Crown Park, Michigan, isn’t your average middle-class suburb. It’s a breeding ground for some of the world’s greatest athletes and home to the best predominantly African-American high school in the country. Among the ridiculous expectations placed on the city’s students to act as the future leaders of their race and the general awkwardness that plagues teenagers far and wide, there existed one group that reigned supreme. In Eric Wingo’s first novel, Kings of the Crown, an All-American basketball player, a class clown, a scholar, and a weirdo become best friends in a coming-of-age tale that explores what it means to be immature, popular, and in love for the first time.