We cast a shadow : a novel / Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
Record details
- ISBN: 0525509062
- ISBN: 9780525509066
- ISBN: 9780525509066 : HRD
- ISBN: 0525509062 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780525509066 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0525509062 (hardback)
- Physical Description: 324 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2019]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Genre: | Dystopian fiction. |
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- 14 of 14 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Bridgeport Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | FIC RUFFIN (Text) | 34000081441552 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | FIC RUFFIN (Text) | 34000081441560 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
We Cast a Shadow : A Novel
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and was the winner of the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, and Unfathomable City- A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance.