![]() ![]() Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he’s never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and she’s been raised to think she’s white. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart his comics shop in Cardiff has failed and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Loving Day is that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos.”- The New York Times Book Review ![]() “ unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor.”- Los Angeles Times. ![]()
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