Frank never really got over it, and he never went back home. Twenty-two years before, at age 19, he was all set to run off to England with the love of his life, the beautiful Rosie Daly, but Rosie didn’t show up. So I put off reading this one, and then was floored to discover almost from the outset that I totally loved it! I even dithered around at the end, so I wouldn’t finish it too fast!įrancis (“Frank”) Mackey is a 41-year old divorced undercover detective in Dublin with partial custody he shares with his ex-wife Olivia of precocious nine-year-old Holly. Even though I loved French’s other two books, I knew that the main protagonist in this story is a character I hadn’t especially been taken with in his brief appearances in the first two books. I was fully expecting not to be enamored of this book.
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In Chapter 4, the narrator’s meeting with his cunning boss, Octavia Whitmore, was interrupted by an emergency call from Nigel’s school. In Chapter 3, he learned that his performance worked, setting forth an official track toward promotion. Recognizing that the party was secretly a competition to determine which of the three black associates would progress with the firm, the narrator donned a Zulu chief costume and danced wildly in front of the white partners. Told from the first-person perspective of the unnamed narrator, an associate at a corporate law firm, the novel opens to the firm’s annual costume party. Shaped by the pernicious form of racism in society, the narrator seeks to guarantee a better life for his only son, Nigel. In the novel’s satirical landscape, racism has not gone away, just more unacceptable to talk about. Maurice Ruffin’s novel We Cast a Shadow is a story about a black man living in a near-distant future American South. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Ruffin, Maurice. |