![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Regarding a Black tour guide’s arm hairs: “I noted them and wished I could be them.”) Several years later and back home in Edward, Pa., Harry’s racist parents slide toward financial catastrophe as Harry graduates high school and Covid-19 takes hold, spurring vaccination checkpoints and a national “bubble registry.” Eager to distance himself from his family, Harry moves to New York and starts to identify as Black, going by “G-Dawg” and joining a “Transracial-Anon” support group. In 2016, 14-year-old Harry Sylvester Bird develops an enduring fascination with Blackness while on a safari in Tanzania. The inventive if messy latest from Okparanta ( Under the Udala Trees) chronicles the coming-of-age of a young white man who is convinced he is Black. ![]()
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