I Am Not Sidney Poitier Drawing on in-depth interviews and

Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions--from physicians

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"The Floating World has everything I love in a fantasy story: A grand adventure that perfectly balances romance and humor

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier Drawing on in-depth interviews andI Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of