{"id":56660,"date":"2018-07-19T03:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T03:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56660"},"modified":"2018-07-19T03:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T03:38:42","slug":"they-come-in-all-colors-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56660","title":{"rendered":"They Come in All Colors, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

They Come in All Colors, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Atria Books<\/a> (an imprint of Simon and Schuster<\/a>)
\n2018-05-29
\n336 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781501172328
\neBook ISBN: 9781501172342
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781501172335 (April 2019)<\/p>\n

Malcolm Hansen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"They<\/a><\/p>\n

Malcolm Hansen arrives on the scene as a bold new literary voice with his stunning debut novel. Alternating between the Deep South<\/a> and New York City<\/a> during the 1960s and early ’70s, They Come in All Colors<\/em> follows a biracial teenage boy who finds his new life in the big city disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s 1968 when fourteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins high school at Claremont Prep, one of New York City\u2019s most prestigious boys\u2019 schools. His mother had uprooted her family from their small hometown of Akersburg, Georgia, a few years earlier, leaving behind Huey\u2019s white father and the racial unrest that ran deeper than the Chattahoochee River<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But for our sharp-tongued protagonist, forgetting the past is easier said than done. At Claremont, where the only other nonwhite person is the janitor, Huey quickly realizes that racism can lurk beneath even the nicest school uniform. After a momentary slip of his temper, Huey finds himself on academic probation and facing legal charges. With his promising school career in limbo, he begins examining his current predicament at Claremont through the lens of his childhood memories of growing up in Akersburg during the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>\u2014and the chilling moments leading up to his and his mother’s flight north.<\/p>\n

With Huey\u2019s head-shaking antics fueling this coming-of-age narrative, the story triumphs as a tender and honest exploration of race, identity, family, and homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alternating between the Deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early ’70s, “They Come in All Colors” follows a biracial teenage boy who finds his new life in the big city disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[21744,28833],"class_list":["post-56660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-atria-books","tag-malcolm-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660","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=56660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56662,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660\/revisions\/56662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}