The Professor's Daughter

By Emily Raboteau

Book Overview

"My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate--if not always diplomatically--the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound by a haunting past that Emma slowly uncovers, she sees that she might just escape.

In exhilarating prose, The Professor's Daughter traces the borderlands of race and family, contested territory that gives rise to rage, confusion, madness, and invisibility. This astonishingly original voice surges with energy and purpose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312425686
• ISBN13: 9780312425685
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"