Straight White Male
{{Short description|2000 novel by Gerald Haslam}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Straight White Male
| author = Gerald Haslam
| published = 2000
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Fiction
| image = File:Straight_White_Male_by_Gerald_W._Haslam_book_cover.jpg
}}
Straight White Male, a novel by California writer Gerald Haslam,{{cite web|title=Straight White Male|work=Publishers Weekly|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87417-354-3}} won the Western States Arts Federation Book Award for Fiction and the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award in 2000.{{cite web|work=Los Angeles Times|url=http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-21404840/|author=Garcia, David|title=Los Angeles Times to Launch 'West' Magazine Feb. 5|date=January 12, 2006}}
Plot
The story of a middle-aged couple caring for the husband's aging, ailing parents and their own children, while troubled by a past with which they have never come to terms.