“It's hard to imagine a book like this -- a first-person account of a white man who darkens his skin pigmentation chemically and briefly lives as a black man in the Jim Crow South -- being printed now and still being considered nonfiction. I read it while growing up in the desegregation-era South in the 1970s and it was possibly the most searing explanation for my young mind about what all the yelling was about, and about what people take for granted.”

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