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We cast a shadow : a novel
- Title
- We cast a shadow : a novel / Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
- Author
- Ruffin, Maurice Carlos
- Publication
- New York : One World, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 19-1593 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-4206 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 324 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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 partner as 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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1593
- ISBN
- 9780525509066
- 0525509062
- 9780525509080 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018021024
- OCLC
- 1035437430
- Author
- Ruffin, Maurice Carlos, author.
- Title
- We cast a shadow : a novel / Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
- Publisher
- New York : One World, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1593JFE 19-4206