He is good at maths, which blacks aren't supposed to be, and he can't dance or play basketball, which blacks are supposed to be good at. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, which he hated. His grandfather and father were doctors, as are his sister and brother. Call me Monk." Although he has dark brown skin and a broad nose, and has been detained by white police officers in three states, some people don't think he's black enough. It is a novel that builds and then surprises.Įverett's protagonist is the most self-conscious of black writers. The narrative is allusive, thickly ironic and includes different texts, various textures. Erasure is a sly work, not easily described, though what it's for and what it's against are always clear. Everett's subject is serious, but his tone, social observations and stylistic inventiveness reach for the bleakest comedy.
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