{"product_id":"9780312425685","title":"The Professor's Daughter : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Professor's Daughter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Emily Raboteau\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn exhilarating prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Professor's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A first-rate job, a book that shows great subtlety and skill.” —\u003ci\u003eRobert Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Raboteau paints Emma's world with grand, sweeping strokes. . . . Her timing is excellent, her humor is wry, her voice is on point, and her eye works with laser-like precision. Raboteau's sensitivity to life and to people is nothing short of astounding.” —\u003ci\u003eFrancesca Wodtke, San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bolt of energy . . . Fearless and . . . inventive, Raboteau is a writer to watch.” —\u003ci\u003eO magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The world that Emily Raboteau has so wonderfully created here is at turns harsh, beautiful, strange, and always real. This work is unflinchingly intelligent.” —\u003ci\u003ePercival Everett, author of Erasure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312425685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40673451114702,"sku":"9780312425685","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_7e5977c9-3044-46e0-889d-b81ccbc3b4fa.jpg?v=1639884040","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312425685","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}