A master at using humour to underscore the horror of racism, William
Melvin Kelley is a writer whose work, decades later, continues to shed
light on that which millions of people would rather remain hidden' MATEO
ASKARIPOUR, AUTHOR OF BLACK BUCKA searing, provocative satire by one of
the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century
that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the
psyche of white America. Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad
executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any
passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and even feels estranged from his
toddler son, Jake.
Mitchell is trapped in an unrewarding and
loveless life, and though domestic violence isn't in his character, it
is never very far away, either. Mitchell's life will irrevocably
change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door
to pick up the family's black maid, Opal, for a date. Cooley it turns
out is not a stranger to the household.
The twins that Tam is
carrying are a result of superfecundation--the fertilization of two
separate ova by two different males. So when one child is born black and
the other white, Mitchell goes on a quest to find Cooley and make him
take his baby. In the tradition of Brer Rabbit trickster tales, dem
enacts a modern-day fable of turning the tables on the white oppressor
and inverting the history of miscegenation and subjugation of African
Americans.
dem - William Melvin Kelley
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