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Jul 24, 2017writermala rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Thrity Umrigar's "Everybody's Son," is by far the best novel I have read this year. Nine year old Biracial Anton is abandoned by his Black mother and taken in by powerful white foster parents. At the risk of being somewhat of a spoiler, let me say that Anton rises to meteoric heights but always questions his identity. He is accused by his girl friend of being the whitest black man or the blackest white man she has known So, who is he? The story unravels to tell us this and even though Anton himself feels like he is not the protagonist of his own life story, we feel his angst. He is everybody's son but belongs to know one. We need to read the book to see if he finds the answer to the quintessential question "Who Am I?"