This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops–from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups–in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method–by turning people white. Abstract:"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates.
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