Black & White. Lewis Shiner

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Publisher: Subterranean
Language: English
Page: 376
ISBN: 1596061715, 9781596061712

Set in Durham, N.C., Shiner's powerful and affecting sixth novel (after 1999's Say Goodbye) explores civil rights, race relations and progress in that city over the past half century. In 2004, 35-year-old Michael Cooper accompanies his father, Robert, who's dying of lung cancer, and his mother, Ruth, from Texas to Durham, to honor his father's wishes and to find out more about his father's past. Michael learns about Hayti, a well-to-do black neighborhood that was demolished to make way for an expressway, uncovers an old murder and finds himself point-man in a race to prevent a much greater tragedy. Shiner weaves Michael's, Robert's and Ruth's stories into a stunning tapestry that captures the hopes, dreams, greed, bigotry, ambitions and betrayals that shaped their destinies and those of our country. While the crime plot builds to a conventional resolution, Michael's poignant discovery of his parents' roots and the splendid depiction of Durham's changing social fabric more than compensate. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Set in Raleigh-Durham, Shiner’s sixth novel tracks the identity crisis of talented comics illustrator Michael Cooper. Michael has come back to North Carolina to attend his dying father, Roger. After years of feeling shut out by his family, Michael finally learns the reason why when his father confides the long and dramatic tale of his conflicted relationship with his wife and her racist family and his passionate liaison with a voodoo priestess who lived in the black section of Durham dubbed Hayti, a thriving, prosperous community that was decimated when Roger’s company constructed a highway right through its center. When Michael connects with new members of an old black power group, he learns some hard lessons not only about his own heritage but also about racial conflicts that have yet to be resolved. Shiner’s book never fully escapes the pitfalls of a political novel more invested in its message than its characters, yet it shines a light on a little-known and shameful part of America’s urban-renewal history and does so with palpable anger. --Joanne Wilkinson

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