![]() ![]() A lot of people want to call it speculative fiction, but it’s not really that. ![]() ![]() A full version of the interview can be found on the New Limestone Review’s podcast, “I Wanted to Also Ask about Ghosts”.Īsh Baker: You talked a little bit last night at the reading you gave on campus about how it’s hard to put this book into a category. Young Library at the University of Kentucky to talk about the book.Įditor’s note: This interview has been edited for length. Ash Baker, Art and Digital Media Editor, and Zeke Perkins, Editor-in-Chief, sat down with Maurice in the William T. Moving at an electric pace, the book explores fatherhood, racism, gentrification, and a whole lot else. Set in the near future, the narrator has made it his mission to erase his son’s blackness through a new technology called “demelanization”. Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s debut novel, We Cast a Shadow, follows one father’s quest to protect his mixed race son from white supremacy. If you’re trying to fit into someone else’s box, you’re gonna end up destroying yourselfĬonversation between Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Ash Baker, and Zeke Perkins ![]()
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