{"product_id":"loving-day","title":"Loving Day: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK •\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e“[Mat Johnson’s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor.”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Razor-sharp . . . \u003ci\u003eLoving Day\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e • NPR • \u003ci\u003eMen’s Journal\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eThe Kansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eSan Antonio Express-News • Time Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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, Tal, 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 opposites bound in love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLoving Day \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incisive . . . razor-sharp . . . that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos. The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. He has the neurotic bawdiness of Philip Roth’s Alexander Portnoy; the keen, caustic eye of Bob Jones in Chester Himes’s \u003ci\u003eIf He Hollers Let Him Go;\u003c\/i\u003e the existential insight of Ellison’s Invisible Man.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exceptional . . . To say that \u003ci\u003eLoving Day\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about race is like saying \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about whales. . . . [Mat Johnson’s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. . . . Even when the novel’s family strife and racial politics are at peak intensity, Johnson’s comic timing is impeccable.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Johnson, at his best, is a powerful comic observer [and] a gifted writer, always worth reading on the topics of race and privilege.’”\u003cb\u003e—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46236801532114,"sku":"9780812983661","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46236801564882,"sku":"9780812993455","price":31.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46236801597650,"sku":"41ecd561-aa6d-3a7c-895b-30a708b0dbe7","price":5.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6526b9a4-7727-4cc6-afb5-afa428b48011.jpg?v=1763718704","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/loving-day","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}