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Your Face in Mine
Jess Row
Riverhead
August 2014
On Sale: August 14, 2014
372 pages
ISBN: 1594488347
EAN: 9781594488344
Kindle: B00GGWO494
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
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 school—and, 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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