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Loving Day

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780812983661 Author(s): Mat Johnson Format: Paperback Year: 2016 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Dimensions: 132 x 18 x 203 (w x l x h) Pages: 304

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Description: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MIAMI HERALD AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - Men's Journal - The Denver Post - Slate - The Kansas City Star - Time Out New York - From the author of the critically beloved Pym ('Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.'--Vanity Fair) comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the possibility of utopia. 'In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father's house.' 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. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. 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. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and she's been raised to think she's white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he's never known, in a haunted house with