Your Face in Mine, Jess Row
Your Face in Mine, Jess Row
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Your Face in Mine

Author: Jess Row

Narrator: Zach Villa

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2014

Synopsis

One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly's shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly's closest friends in high school - and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, skinny, white, and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: he's had a plastic surgeon perform 'racial reassignment surgery.' 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, agrees, and things quickly begin to spiral out of control.

About Jess Row

JESS ROW is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine, the essay collection White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, and two collections of short stories, The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. He’s received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers Award; his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, and many other publications. He teaches at NYU and lives in New York City and Plainfield, Vermont.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Raya on August 06, 2014

Baltimore, Maryland seems to be on my brain lately. First, I binge watched The Wire, then I reread David Simon’s 1997 book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. Finally I plunged into Jess Row’s provocative book, Your Face in Mine: A Novel. For someone who has been “compliment......more

Goodreads review by Terri on July 25, 2014

This is probably one of those books that needs to be read at least three times to really get it, but I just don't have the time to waste. While I do appreciate that it is trying to talk about race and identity, if I feel like I need to have a literary critic sitting next to me to explain it, then it......more

Goodreads review by Chris on September 16, 2014

What if I was born of the wrong ethnicity? Could I be happier in a different culture? If I could change my ethnicity, would I? These are the kinds of questions at the center of Jess Row's novel Your Face in Mine. I could relate. Had racial reassignment surgery been a viable option twenty years ago,......more

Goodreads review by Lark on April 26, 2020

The premise was great. The writing was bland, though, and left me feeling that many potential punches were checked. "Polished" comes to mind as the way to describe this writing...not in a good way. The sentences sound good but tend to use seven words where one would do. There is a lot of saying exac......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 01, 2015

I've read only 1/4 of this book, and while I like it; I don't want to finish it. I spent all of last night and this morning while on vacation re-reading (speed-reading really) a book I've read about 6 times instead (Soulless by Gail Carriger). I'll probably pick this book up again in 27 years in pap......more

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