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Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories

By Toni Ann Johnson
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By Toni Ann Johnson
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A 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominee
Shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize in fiction, 2024

In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue—collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They’re Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn’t know. With that, we’re introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They’re...

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