In this future world race is still an issue of injustice. Set in a satirical future south, We Cast a Shadow tells the racially fueled dystopian story of a black man desperate to pay for his biracial son's demelanization process.
Writing in the tradition of Ralph Ellison and Franz Kafka, Maurice Carlos Ruffin fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love.ģ.75 thought-provoking stars for this racially charged work of satirical fiction! This electrifying, suspenseful novel is at once a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story.
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 surreal hoops-from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups-in an urgent quest to protect his son. There is one potential solution: a new experimental medical procedure that promises to save lives by turning people white. Having watched the world take away his own father, he is determined to stop history from repeating itself. In this near-future society plagued by resurgent racism, segregation, and expanding private prisons, our narrator knows Nigel might not survive. Like any father, he just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is growing larger by the day.
Our narrator faces an impossible decision. How far would you go to protect your child? A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who will do anything to protect his son-even if it means turning him white.
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