We Cast a Shadow

I talked with Charlandra Jenkins about this on episode 243 of What Should I Read Next. Charlandra called this one a new classic: "It's about a Black man in a 'post-racialized south' who works for a law firm. There can only be one person in this crop of associates ascend to partnership, and he believes that he needs to become a partner in order to get his biracial son a surgery that will render him white-passing. At first, it feels so over the top in terms of its satire, but it's so grounded in realism, in the real life complexities of being Black in America today. I feel strongly that book should be read in schools. I think it's incredible."