One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly’s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly’s closest friends in high school—and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, white and Jewish.
Martin then tells an astonishing story: after years of immersing himself in black culture, he’s had a plastic surgeon perform “racial reassignment surgery”: altering his hair, skin, and physiognomy to allow him to pass as African American. Unknown to his family or childhood friends, Martin has been living a new life ever since.
Now, however, Martin feels he can no longer keep his identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world.
Inventive and thought-provoking, Your Face in Mine is a brilliant novel about cultural and racial alienation and the nature of belonging in a world where identity can be a stigma or a lucrative brand.
General
| Imprint: |
Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2015 |
| Authors: |
Jess Row
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| Dimensions: |
203 x 130 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
372 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-59463-384-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-59463-384-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781594633843 |
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