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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: We cast a shadow
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Ruffin, Maurice Carlos
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: FICTION / Literary.
  genre: FICTION / Satire.
  genre: FICTION / African American / General.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 324 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method, by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops, from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups, in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love.
  note: Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    geographic: Southern States
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Fathers and sons
    geographic: Southern States
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Surgery, Plastic
    geographic: Southern States
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    geographic: Southern States
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Dystopias
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Satire
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / African American / General
  classification: PS3618.U4338 W4 2019
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780525509066
  identifier: 0525509062
  identifier: 9780525509080
  identifier: 2018021024
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180511
    record change date: 20191126112402.0
    record identifier: in00004057259