e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Ruffin, Maurice Carlos.
Subjects
Racism -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Ruffin, Maurice Carlos.
by title:
We cast a shadow : a...
by call number:
FICTION RUF
Search the Web
Ruffin, Maurice Carlos.
Racism -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
MARC Display
We cast a shadow : a novel /
Maurice
Carlos
Ruffin
.
by
Ruffin
,
Maurice
Carlos
.
One World, 2019.
Call #:
FICTION RUF
Subjects
Racism -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780525509066 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. 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. 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. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love"--Publisher.
Genre:
Satire.
Black fiction.
Literary fiction.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION RUF
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION RUF
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.