{"product_id":"9780812993455","title":"Loving Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the critically beloved \u003ci\u003ePym\u003c\/i\u003e (“Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.”—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the possibility of utopia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e“In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father’s house.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics 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 outside in the grass. 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 a 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’s been raised to think she’s white.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he’s never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, \u003ci\u003eLoving Day\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the wonders of binaries bound in love.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eLoving Day \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Writers who are as smart as Mat Johnson are rarely as funny, and those who are as funny are rarely as smart. He is unique, and simply must be read. \u003ci\u003eLoving Day,\u003c\/i\u003e a tender, ribald, fast-moving novel, is the perfect place to begin.”\u003cb\u003e—Teju Cole, author of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Hilarious, sometimes discomforting, always brilliant, \u003ci\u003eLoving Day \u003c\/i\u003etackles with heart and sly humor identity, family, and finding that elusive place where you belong. This is an awesome, viciously witty novel.”\u003cb\u003e—Roxane Gay, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Feminist \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eLoving Day\u003c\/i\u003e is wonderful satire, sharp and funny about so many contemporary themes and anxieties, including race, money, family, sex, and love. Mat Johnson has a deep comic gift, and his laughs always come with real thought and feeling.”\u003cb\u003e—Sam Lipsyte, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ask\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fun Parts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This is what happens when races mix: Mat Johnson. Not a soul or a post-soul is spared in his brilliant and hilarious satire of modern American tribalism.”\u003cb\u003e—Danzy Senna, author of \u003ci\u003eCaucasia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “It just seems to me the white Mat Johnson can’t agree on anything the black Mat Johnson says.”\u003cb\u003e—Percival Everett, author of \u003ci\u003eI’m Not Sidney Poitier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Genius! Mat Johnson is hands-down one of my favorite novelists writing today. He writes about the difficult stuff—the stuff that matters—in the most humorous and heart-wrenching way. \u003ci\u003eLoving Day\u003c\/i\u003e is Johnson’s triumph and a reader’s great joy.”\u003cb\u003e—Heidi Durrow, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Fell From the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Since this is a book by Mat Johnson, one of the best American satirists since Mark Twain, I don’t have to tell you it’s as funny as it is smart.”\u003cb\u003e—Emily Raboteau, author of \u003ci\u003eSearching for Zion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007131468016,"sku":"9780812993455","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812993455_p0.jpg?v=1763749551","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812993455","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}