I Am Not Sidney Poitier "The Floating World has everything

"The Floating World has everything I love in a fantasy story: A grand adventure that perfectly balances romance and humor

continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem

She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks

the country estate of his wealthy benefactress

and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute

I Am Not Sidney Poitier "The Floating World has everythingI Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of