“Race may be socially constructed, but it is heartrendingly real. Deck Lee meets Sandy Lodge: radical black intellectual marries doughy, white, New England blue blood. Their older daughter, Cole, is brown and nappy like Deck; their younger, Birdie, is light, bright and damn near white. Birdie narrates this decade long tale of a family split by its separate but equal commitments to racial utopia: Deck is wedded to his canary in the coal mine theory of the Mulatto Millennium and intellectual...”

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