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Your Face in Mine: A Novel

Your Face in Mine: A Novel

A widely praised young writer delivers a daring, ambitious novel about identity and race in the age of globalization.
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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 Kellyâ€™s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kellyâ€™s closest friends in high schoolâ€”and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, white and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: after years of immersing himself in black culture, heâ€™s had a plastic surgeon perform â€œracial reassignment surgeryâ€: 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 identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world. 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.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_1594633843
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2015-08-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594633843

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