TY - BOOK AU - Barrett,A.Igoni TI - Blackass: a novel SN - 9781555977337 AV - PR9387.9.B365 B53 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Minneapolis, Minnesota PB - Graywolf Press KW - Kafka, Franz, KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Fiction KW - Alienation (Social psychology) KW - Blacks KW - Race identity KW - Nigeria KW - Lagos KW - False personation KW - Political satire, Nigerian (English) KW - Lagos (Nigeria) KW - Social life and customs KW - Adaptations KW - fast N2 - "Furo Wariboko wakes on the morning of a job interview to discover he's turned into a white man: red hair, green eyes, pale skin. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. Pursued from the streets to the boardroom by those who would use him, Furo hides the evidence of his former life ... as he reinvents himself. In this wicked satire, Furo's search for an identity deeper than his skin leads to the unraveling of his own precariously constructed story"--Page 4 of cover ER -