{"id":37047,"date":"2014-08-15T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37047"},"modified":"2019-08-30T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:46:38","slug":"your-face-in-mine-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37047","title":{"rendered":"Your Face in Mine, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/your-face-in-mine-by-jess-row\/9781594488344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Your Face in Mine, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverheadbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riverhead Books<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Press)<br \/>\n2014-08-14<br \/>\n384 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9781594488344<br \/>\nePub ISBN: 9780698168817<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jess Row<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/your-face-in-mine-by-jess-row\/9781594488344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.penguingroup.com\/Covers\/344\/9781594488344M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baltimore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore<\/a>, an African American man he doesn\u2019t recognize calls out to him. To Kelly\u2019s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly\u2019s closest friends in high school\u2014and, 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\u2019s had a plastic surgeon perform \u201cracial reassignment surgery\u201d\u2014altering 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Inventive and thought-provoking, <em>Your Face in Mine<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Face in Mine, A Novel Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-08-14 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781594488344 ePub ISBN: 9780698168817 Jess Row An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization. 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