Description: A coming-of-age novel set in the 1980s, "The Prince of Orange County" chronicles the boyhood adventures of Thomas Kabiri, a playground hoops phenom whose life changes over the course of one summer while his father is out of the country.
Brief description: Kareem Tayyar is a poet and novelist whose books include "Magic Carpet Poems" (Tebot Bach Books), "Postmark Atlantis" (Level Four Press), "In the Footsteps of the Silver King" (Spout Hill Books), and "Scenes From A Good Life" (Tebot Bach Books). A Professor of English at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California, he holds a Ph.D. in English from U.C. Riverside. He is a recipient of a 2019 Wurlitzer Fellowship for Poetry.