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Your Face in Mine
Your Face in Mine: A Novel | Jess Row
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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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Posting (and reading) has been light for me with the overwhelming and disheartening news out of the US combined with a bit of work stress (mansplaining anyone?) Today I hit our local thrift store in an effort to find a wee bit of happiness and came away with these goodies.

saresmoore Lovely. I'm regretting lending out my copy of Quiet because right now, I would love nothing more than to take a deep breath and dive right into that book. It's perhaps the most comforting nonfiction I've ever read. 8y
Gleefulreader @saresmoore oh! I'm really looking forward to Quiet and it is on my #LitsyAtoZ for the letter Q! 8y
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