Blackass
Subtitle: a novel
By: A. Igoni Barrett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781555977337
Subjects: Social life and customs; Adaptations; Race identity; Political satire, Nigerian (English); Fiction; False personation; Alienation (Social psychology); Blacks; Identity (Psychology)
Other titles: Black ass
Description: "Furo Wariboko wakes on the morning of a job interview to discover he's turned into a white man: red hair, green eyes, pale skin. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. Pursued from the streets to the boardroom by those who would use him, Furo hides the evidence of his former life ... as he reinvents himself. In this wicked satire, Furo's search for an identity deeper than his skin leads to the unraveling of his own precariously constructed story"--Page 4 of cover.