{"product_id":"light-skin-gone-to-waste-stories-paperback","title":"Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eToni Ann Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They're cosmopolitan. Sophisticated. They're also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they've made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from. As she grows up and realizes her father is sleeping with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or perhaps precisely because of, her family.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTONI ANN JOHNSON is the author of \u003ci\u003eHomegoing\u003c\/i\u003e, a novella, and the novel \u003ci\u003eRemedy for a Broken Angel\u003c\/i\u003e, which earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. She is a two- time winner of the Humanitas Prize for her screenplays \u003ci\u003eRuby Bridges\u003c\/i\u003e, for Disney, and \u003ci\u003eCrown Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, for Showtime Television. Johnson's essays and short fiction have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHunger Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44308066041958,"sku":"9780820363066","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/MmRldUhiakNFNHpXRnZoVGhtWHdSdz09.webp?v=1767776134","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/light-skin-gone-to-waste-stories-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}