We cast a shadow : a novel / Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partneras one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525509066
- Physical Description: 324 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Genre: | Satirical literature. Dystopian fiction. |
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Mackenzie Public Library | RUF (Text) | 35192000403547 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Creston Public Library | FIC RUF (Text) | 35140100045742 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC RUF (Text) | 35246000968329 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Quesnel Branch | RUF (Text) | 33923006066389 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Terrace Public Library | RUF (Text) | 35151001081199 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F RUF (Text) | 35110001065974 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF RUFFI (Text) | TRL25168 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | RUF (Text) | 33923006066397 | Suspense | Volume hold | Available | - |