SEPARATE BUT EQUAL a novel about Race, Sex and Gender
Are you an Artist or a Racist?
A tragic incident has a rippling effect on a community of friends: a famous, well-respected artist changes his views on race; another goes in search of his own artistic voice; and the gulf widens between two women who pledged sisterhood for life
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We meet childhood friends and fraternity brothers, both artists, Ernest LeGagneur and Stanley Davenport, shortly after Bliss, a mutual friend commits suicide. Whereas Stanley busies himself searching for any clue showing the suicide to be a murder, Ernest breaks ties with the past by quitting his job, abandoning his apartment and distancing himself from his fraternity brothers.
Ernest's exodus comes to a halt when he meets Barbara Wilson, a woman seeking a one-night stand that lasts forever. Her voice filters from the margins of his former life, edging into the core of his denial, until she accidentally implicates herself into the mystery surrounding Bliss' death.