Loving Day

by Mat Johnson

4 of 5 stars 1 rating • 1 review • 4 shelved
Book cover for Loving Day
Shelve It

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

"Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: in the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter and she thinks she's white. Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he never knew and a haunted house and history he knows too well. In their search for a new life they struggle with an unwanted house and its ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and inspire a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday that celebrates interracial love"--Publisher.
  • ISBN13 9780812993455
  • Publish Date 26 May 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 9 May 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Spiegel & Grau
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English