the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility
his life is going to get turned inside out
his horrible aunt and uncle
and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience
the country estate of his wealthy benefactress
I Am Not Sidney Poitier the thought of belonging somewhereI Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of