Disarmingly funny.
Brilliant, funny, original, and unflinching, Harry Sylvester Bird is a satire that speaks to all the most pressing tensions and anxieties of our time--and of the history that has shaped us and might continue to do so..
But when Maryam begins to pull away, Harry is forced to confront his identity as he never has before--if he can.
In the city, he meets and falls in love with Maryam, a young Nigerian woman.
When he finally is, he moves straight to New York City, where he feels he can finally live out his true inner self.
He can\'t wait until he\'s old enough to leave.
He witnesses racial profiling, graffitied swastikas, and White Power signs on his walk home from school.
And his small town isn\'t any better.
To Harry, they represent everything wrong with this country.
They\'re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have quite a few secrets of their own.
Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. - The New York Times From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man\'s education and miseducation in contemporary America.
Disarmingly funny
