August 25, 2025
This marvelously funny, scathingly witty novel features a biracial professor, artist’s wife and mother of two. Jane has just finished her 2nd novel, a hefty tome exploring mixed-race reality in America, but her agent’s reaction leads her, instead, to pitching screenplays to a bigwig in Hollywood’s latest venture: a superficial, hackneyed portrayal of, in her words, “the mulatto experience.” The story of this family’s struggle for success, stability, and dignity in an unsupportive (hostile?) community is equal parts cultural satire and timely commentary.
–Erica, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
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