Raceless: In Search Of Family, Identity, And The Truth About Where I Belong

From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked blackA Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year"Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growing up mixed race... and she writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular place in the world.” -New York Times Book ReviewFrom The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was