Your Face in Mine: A Novel
by Row, Jess
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594488347
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488344
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- More Than Words Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOS-K-02h-01239
- Title
- Your Face in Mine: A Novel
- Author
- Row, Jess
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1594488347
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488344
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2014-08-14
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