In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva,
arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York,
to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black,
something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With
that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter
Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon
to be born. They're cosmopolitan. Sophisticated. They're also
troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling
apart. We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as
Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect
art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they've made
it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black
children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible
barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't
free her from. As she grows up and realizes her father is sleeping
with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her
half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or
perhaps precisely because of, her family.
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