Your Face in Mine: A Novel

An award-winningwriter delivers apoignant andprovocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization.One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesnt recognize calls out to him.

To Kellys shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kellys closest friends in high schooland, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, skinny, white, and Jewish.

Martin then tells an astonishing story: After years of immersing himself in black culture, hes had a plastic surgeon perform racial reassignment surgeryaltering his hair, skin, and physiognomy to allow him to pass as African American.

Unknown to his family or childhood friends, Martin has been living a new life ever since.Now, however, Martin feels he can no longer keep his new identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world.

Kelly, still recovering from the death of his wife and child and looking for a way to begin anew, agrees, and things quickly begin to spiral out of control.Inventive and thought-provoking, Your Face in Mine is a brilliant novel about cultural and racial alienation and the nature of belonging in a world where identity can be a stigma or a lucrative brand.