![]() That kind of love looks and feels a lot like violence.” Sweeping ideas of inheritance, pride, injustice, humanity standing back-to-back with inhumanity, survival, and devotion swarm and abound in these pages. As Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah writes in his New York Times review of “We Cast a Shadow,” “The Narrator shows us over and over again what happens when love is pushed out into the world from a source that does not love itself. ![]() In his desperation, he strives to protect his son from racial violence, and yet, it becomes clear that he has fallen into the trap of this very same violence by pushing this “protection” onto his son. Our unnamed Narrator, a black lawyer at a white-glove firm, is obsessed with the possibility of advancement in order to afford this procedure for his biracial son. ![]() In New Orleans’ author Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s much acclaimed debut novel, “ We Cast a Shadow,” we find ourselves in a near-future southern city, where white supremacy reigns and the process of “demelanization”-a medical procedure to remove all characteristics of blackness-has become popular. ![]() The Dystopia is Now: An Interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin by Karin Cecile Davidson ![]()
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