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He was Charles Harmon, a black man ?living white? and living well?beautiful wife, German car, big house?in an upper-upper-middle-class suburb of Los Angeles.
Ballantine
November 2003
288 pages
ISBN: 0345443489
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Contemporary
He is Brain Nigger Charlie, a train tramp eking out a
ragged existence on the railroads, leaning on drugs to keep
him from thinking about everything he had, everything his
creeping dementia has forced him to run from. Charlie’s been asked a desperate favor: find the seventeen-
year-old niece of the man who taught him how to survive the
rails—a girl lost somewhere on the High Line,
the “corridors of racist hate” along the tracks of the
Pacific Northwest. Charlie has little hope of finding her
alive, but the request is an obligation he can’t refuse.
The search is a twisted trail that leads from Iowa to
Washington State, mixing lies and deceit, hate and
hopelessness, and brutal, stubbornly unsolved murders. All
of which Charlie is prepared to meet in kind. What he isn’t
prepared
for is a path that will eventually lead him back to what he
thought no longer existed—his own humanity—though the toll
may turn out to be his life. At once stunningly visceral and psychologically complex,
furiously paced and deeply empathic, The Drift is John
Ridley’s most ambitious, most galvanizing novel yet.
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