Chester Himes 1909-1984
"Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference."
The late 20th and early 21st centuries are the age of the liminal individual. Liminality, which is one of those fussy academic words, refers to the sensation or actuality of being "caught between" portions of reality.
Those of a mixed racial background often describe themselves as such in regards to their relation to general society, as do teenagers in …