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Random House. 09/01/2003. Unabridged. Dylan grows up in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn, the only white boy around. His hippie parents are oblivious, but his troubles in an all-black milieu are eased by his best friend, Mingus Rude, the son of a soul singer. As the boys grow up, Dylan moves away from his roots and goes off to college in Berkeley, while Mingus falls deep into crack and drug-dealing and ends up in jail. Throughout, the presence of a magic ring that allows its wearer to fly is a recurring motif in this close look at the insidious presence of racism in American life. Originally published at $39.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 06/21/2005. 337 pgs. Written when the author, Helen Oyeyemi, was 18, THE ICARUS GIRL is about young Jess Harrison, who has a Nigerian mother and a British father. Jess is bright and unhappy, feeling torn between two worlds, but she finds some solace in the invention of an imaginary friend named TillyTilly--who turns out to be a very bad influence. This extraordinary first novel, while drawing on the background of the author--who also has a foot in both worlds, as a Nigerian-born Londoner--remains entirely original and compelling. Originally published at $23.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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