We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America by Skyhorse, Brando

We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807078983)

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We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America by Skyhorse, Brando

We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America

$18.00
We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America by Skyhorse, Brando

We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Why do people pass? Fifteen writers reveal their experiences with passing.

For some, "passing" means opportunity, access, or safety. Others don't willingly pass but are "passed" in specific situations by someone else. We Wear the Mask, edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page, is an illuminating and timely anthology that examines the complex reality of passing in America.

Skyhorse, a Mexican American, writes about how his mother passed him as an American Indian before he learned who he really is. Page shares how her white mother didn't tell friends about her black ex-husband or that her children were, in fact, biracial.

The anthology includes writing from Gabrielle Bellot, who shares the disquieting truths of passing as a woman after coming out as trans, and MG Lord, who, after the murder of her female lover, embraced heterosexuality. Patrick Rosal writes of how he "accidentally" passes as a waiter at the National Book Awards ceremony, and Rafia Zakaria agonizes over her Muslim American identity while traveling through domestic and international airports. Other writers include Trey Ellis, Marc Fitten, Susan Golomb, Margo Jefferson, Achy Obejas, Clarence Page, Sergio Troncoso, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Teresa Wiltz.

Author: Brando Skyhorse
ISBN-10: 0807078980
ISBN-13: 9780807078983
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2017
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2017 pg. 108
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017
By Brando Skyhorse
By Brando Skyhorse
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Brando Skyhorse is the author of Take This Man: A Memoir and a novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, which received the PEN/Hemingway Award. He is associate professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Lisa Page directs the creative writing program at George Washington University where she is assistant professor of English. Her work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, the Crisis, Playboy, and the Washington Post Book World.

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