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Spiegel & Grau
June 2015
On Sale: May 26, 2015
Featuring: Warren; Tal
305 pages
ISBN: 0812993454
EAN: 9780812993455
Kindle: B00NDTUCYY
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Fiction | Contemporary
From the author of the critically beloved Pym
(“Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and
Jules Verne.”—Vanity Fair) comes a ruthlessly comic
and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter,
confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the
possibility of utopia. “In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father’s
house.” Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst
reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come
apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish
American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last
possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart
of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home,
Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he
screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The
next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the
face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he
sees the mingled features of his white father and his black
mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and
she’s been raised to think she’s white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake
his life with a reluctant daughter he’s never known, in a
haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their
search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall
in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on
Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers. A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about
blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the
dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites
bound in love.
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