Uncomfortable with White Boy Shuffle

After finishing white boy shuffle I passed it on to my grandmother who has been visiting from England. I told her that it was written by an African-American Author because it was from by African-American Literature class as expected she said she hadn't read any novels written by African-American authors. A few days later I asked her what she thought of the book while she was halfway through the book, she said she liked it but felt uncomfortable with some of the parts of the book. I asked what made her uncomfortable and she said that the underlying story was off. It was like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", a movie where a man ages backward. For White Boy Shuffle the life of the narrator should, in a perfect world go like this, Gunnar starts in the "hood", does well in basketball, gets good grades, goes to college, and become successful like a white person, but instead it starts with Gunnar being successful in a white environment and ends with Gunnar not being able to stand to live in a racially manipulated America. It wasn't the use of the n-word or the barrage of slurs that put my grandmother off but the backward manner of the book. 
Once my grandmother had finished reading the book - after four days - she said she was uncomfortable with another thing, Gunnars willingness to make a change. Throughout the book, Gunnar has all these thoughts regarding the injustices that surround his life but often refrains from making decisions. It doesn't have to be racially though, he isn't the one who makes the decision for who to be married to. Psycho Loco makes the decision for him. He isn't interested in college it is more his mother who is interested in him going to college and when he's playing basketball it's the crowd that's affected by his play, not himself. In the end, his decision is to never have to make decisions again, to allow him to stop fighting the decisions that are being made to oppress his people.