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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 (βImagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.ββVanity 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. βIn the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my fatherβs house.β 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 sheβs been raised to think sheβs white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter heβs 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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