Twelfth and Race

By: Eric Goodman

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Paperback | 1 March 2012

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288 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.65

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Life takes a strange turn when Richard Allan Gordon, thirty years old and as white as they come, discovers that, as a result of identity theft, five-year-old Jada Reece Gordon bears his name. The product of a middle-class Jewish upbringing, Richie finds himself completely in love and lust with Jada's mother, LaTisha, a twenty-five-year-old African American nursing student, and longs to be a father to her child. Richie and LaTisha's story takes place at the intersection of love, race, and identity, as the couple is forced to examine their relationship in light of a terrible event that takes the life of a young black father and catapults their midwestern city into chaos. As riots erupt around them and Richie discovers a secret about his own past that challenges his long-held ideas, he and LaTisha must come to grips with the forces that threaten to tear their relationship apart. A novel that doesn't shy away from the racism that dwells within the unexamined hearts of so many Americans, Twelfth and Race may shock or outrage some readers, yet its story is ultimately timely, honest, and hopeful.

Industry Reviews

"Eric Goodman brilliantly dramatizes the complex workings of the skin game in our supposedly post-racial' America... This is fiction at its best, prose that touches, prose that asks us to think more about who we are, that demands that we be more than we are. A significant achievement." Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Rails under My Back. "A wonderful puzzle, leaving us wondering who has stolen whose identity. There's an amazing amount of wit, soul, candour, and erotic and intoxicating energy in this deeply probing and suspenseful novel. An amazingly and gloriously fulfilling read."Josip Novakovich, author of April Fool's Day and Salvation and Other Disasters. "I know of no other writer who has put all the race cards on the table with such honesty and humanity. Twelfth and Race may very well be a first of its kind." Jim Heynen, author of The One-Room Schoolhouse.

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