{"product_id":"we-cast-a-shadow-maurice-carlos-ruffin","title":"We Cast A Shadow;  Maurice Carlos Ruffin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow far would you go to protect your child?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur narrator faces an impossible decision. Like any father, he just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is growing larger by the day. In this near-future society plagued by resurgent racism, segregation, and expanding private prisons, our narrator knows Nigel might not survive. Having watched the world take away his own father, he is determined to stop history from repeating itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is one potential solution: a new experimental medical procedure that promises to save lives by turning people white. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few Black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly surreal hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in an urgent quest to protect his son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis electrifying, suspenseful novel is at once a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. Writing in the tradition of Ralph Ellison and Franz Kafka, Maurice Carlos Ruffin fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanuary 19, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781493911874,"sku":"","price":16.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/cast.jpg?v=1679242809","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/we-cast-a-shadow-maurice-carlos-ruffin","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}