Ok, so I will level with you I am terrified of writing this review. It has taken me so long because I worry that whatever I have to say about this book will not do it justice – so maybe just go out and buy the book.

Thank you so much to Ana at Quercus for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

This is the book for which the staff at Quercus Publishing House were given a reading day when the proofs first came in. Referred to as, “The Lost giant of American literature” by the New Yorker, this is the book that since finishing reading it earlier this month, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about.

The book, first published in 1962, wss writer William Melvin Kelley’s debut novel and at the age of just 24, his satirical explorations of race relations in America earnt him…