In the city, he meets and falls in love with Maryam, a young Nigerian woman. When he finally is, he moves straight to New York City, where he feels he can finally live out his true inner self. He can’t wait until he’s old enough to leave. He witnesses racial profiling, graffitied swastikas, and White Power signs on his walk home from school. To Harry, they represent everything wrong with this country. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have quite a few secrets of their own. Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. "Disarmingly funny." - The New York Timesįrom the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America.
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