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02507aam a22002778i 4500 001 76632B0A8BFD11ED81B8056D56ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230104010018 008 220420t20222022gau e 000 j eng 010 $a 2022017996 020 $a 0820363065 020 $a 9780820363066 035 $a (OCoLC)1311591958 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d IUO $d SO$ $d BDX $d SILO 100 1 $a Johnson, Toni Ann, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Light skin gone to waste : $b stories / $c by Toni Ann Johnson. 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 216 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 500 $a "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction"--Page before title page. 505 00 $t Time travel. $t Claiming Tobias -- $t Lucky -- $t Wings made of rocks -- $t Better -- $t Light skin gone to waste -- $g The $t way we fell out of touch -- $t Got to be real -- $t Make a space -- $t Time travel. 520 $a "In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They're cosmopolitan. Sophisticated. They're also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart. We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, and as Velma opens her antiques shop, as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they've made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from. As she grows up, and realizes her father's sleeping with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or perhaps precisely because of, her family. A dazzling collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste examines race, class, community, family, and the meaning of home."-- $c Provided by publisher. 830 0 $a Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230104010722.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=76632B0A8BFD11ED81B8056D56ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search