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Your Face in Mine: A Novel Hardcover - 2014
by Row, Jess
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- Title Your Face in Mine: A Novel
- Author Row, Jess
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition New
- Pages 372
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date 2014-08-14
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5D4000008U19_ns
- ISBN 9781594488344 / 1594488347
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.3 x 1.05 in (23.60 x 16.00 x 2.67 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Male friendship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013038938
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization.
One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn’t recognize calls out to him. To Kelly’s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly’s closest friends in high schooland, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, skinny, white, and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: After years of immersing himself in black culture, he’s had a plastic surgeon perform racial reassignment surgery”altering his hair, skin, and physiognomy to allow him to pass as African American. Unknown to his family or childhood friends, Martin has been living a new life ever since.
Now, however, Martin feels he can no longer keep his new identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world. Kelly, still recovering from the death of his wife and child and looking for a way to begin anew, agrees, and things quickly begin to spiral out of control.
Inventive and thought-provoking, Your Face in Mine is a brilliant novel about cultural and racial alienation and the nature of belonging in a world where identity can be a stigma or a lucrative brand.