DodgersBy: Bill Beverly Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming of age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J. D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boysincluding East's hothead younger brotherto kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him,