Review: LOVING DAY by Mat Johnson

My new review for Lone Star Literary Life is LOVING DAY (Spiegel & Grau) by Mat Johnson. This book is what literature should be. It made me laugh; it made me cry; it made me think. From the review:

�I�m not white, but I can feel the eyes of the few people outside on me, people who must think that I am, because I look white�.This disconnect in my racial projection is one of the things I hate.� My mother was black � that counts, no matter how pale and Irish my father was.�

Warren Duffy�s father has died, and Warren returns to Philadelphia from Wales, leaving a failed comics shop, career, and marriage behind, to settle his father�s estate. Broke, Warren appears at a local comic convention with his illustrations, maybe to sell a book or two. Instead Warren discovers that a youthful fling with a Jewish white girl has bequeathed him a seventeen-year-old daughter, Tal. She moves in with Warren and while searching for a new school the pair discover the M�lange Center for Multiracial Life, which turns out to be a sort of biracial commune for �inclusion of all perspectives of the�mixed-race experience.� Is this the answer to Warren�s search for home?

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