A widely praised young writer delivers a daring, ambitious novel about identity and race in the age of globalization.
One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly s closest friends in high school and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, white and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: after years of immersing himself in black culture, he s had a plastic surgeon perform...