{"id":41365,"date":"2015-06-12T01:55:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41365"},"modified":"2020-06-26T03:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:04:05","slug":"mislaid-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41365","title":{"rendered":"Mislaid: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062364777\/mislaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mislaid: A Novel<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/search-results\/?imprint=ecco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ecco\/HarperCollins<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-19<br \/>\n256 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780062364777<br \/>\nTrade Paperback ISBN: 9780062364784<br \/>\nE-book ISBN: 9780062364791<br \/>\nTrimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.89 in (d)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nell_Zink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nell Zink<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062364777\/mislaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.harperapps.com\/covers\/9780062364777\/x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice\u2014the author of the acclaimed <em>The Wallcreeper<\/em>\u2014about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire.<\/p>\n<p>Stillwater College in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virginia<\/a>, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ingenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ing\u00e9nue<\/a> with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start\u2014she\u2019s a lesbian, he\u2019s gay\u2014but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.<\/p>\n<p>Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee\u2019s children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father\u2019s compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother\u2019s lies\u2014she knows neither her real age, nor that she is \u201cwhite,\u201d nor that she has any other family.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mislaid: A Novel Ecco\/HarperCollins 2015-05-19 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062364777 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780062364784 E-book ISBN: 9780062364791 Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.89 in (d) Nell Zink A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice\u2014the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper\u2014about the making and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462],"tags":[20234,20235],"class_list":["post-41365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","tag-eccoharpercollins","tag-nell-zink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59830,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365\/revisions\/59830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}