Standort	Interessenkreis	Status	Entliehen bis	Vorbestellungen	Zweigstelle
Standort:	Interessenkreis:	Status: Onleihe	Entliehen bis:	Vorbestellungen: 0	Zweigstelle: Onleihe

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voiceƒEuro"the author of the acclaimed The WallcreeperƒEuro"about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire. Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingǸnue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the startƒEuro"sheƒEuros a lesbian, heƒEuros gayƒEuro"but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and LeeƒEuros children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his fatherƒEuros compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her motherƒEuros liesƒEuro"she knows neither her real age, nor that she is âEuroÅ“white," nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare.

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