{"id":57563,"date":"2019-02-15T19:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57563"},"modified":"2019-02-16T02:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T02:10:57","slug":"we-cast-a-shadow-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57563","title":{"rendered":"We Cast a Shadow, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Cast a Shadow, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

One World<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Random House)
\n2019-01-29
\n336 pages
\n6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780525509066
\nEbook ISBN: 9780525509080
\nAudiobook ISBN: 9780525637363<\/p>\n

Maurice Carlos Ruffin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.\u201d<\/em> This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga\u2019s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body\u2014if you can afford it.<\/p>\n

In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father, our narrator just wants the best for his son, Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process?<\/p>\n

This electrifying, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America<\/a> and a profoundly moving family story. At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin\u2019s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison<\/a>, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka<\/a>, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov<\/a>. We Cast a Shadow<\/em> fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We Cast a Shadow, A Novel One World (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2019-01-29 336 pages 6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 Hardcover ISBN: 9780525509066 Ebook ISBN: 9780525509080 Audiobook ISBN: 9780525637363 Maurice Carlos Ruffin \u201cYou can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.\u201d This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga\u2019s clinic, where anyone can get their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[29454,27558,25857],"class_list":["post-57563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-maurice-carlos-ruffin","tag-one-world","tag-penguin-random-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57563","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=57563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57578,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57563\/revisions\/57578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}