Eric Goodman, author of "Twelfth and Race"

Start: 03/16/2012 7:30 pm

Friday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Grass Roots Books & Music

227 SW 2^nd Street, Corvallis

This event is co-sponsored by the OSU MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Life takes a strange turn when Richard Allan Gordon, thirty years old and as white as they come, discovers that, as a result of identity theft, five-year-old Jada Reece Gordon bears his name. The product of a middle-class Jewish upbringing, Richie finds himself completely in love and lust with Jada's mother, LaTisha, a twenty-five-year-old African American nursing student, and longs to be a father to her child. Richie and LaTisha's story takes place at the intersection of love, race, and identity, as the couple is forced to examine their relationship in light of the terrible event that takes the life of a young black father and catapults their midwestern city into chaos.

Eric Goodman’s previous novels include In Days of Awe and Child of My Right Hand. His work has been awarded three Ohio Arts Council fellowships and residencies at the Headland Center for the Arts, Ragdale and the MacDowell Colony. Goodman has also published more than 150 articles and essays, with work appearing in the L.A. Times Sunday Magazine, GQ, Travel & Leisure, Saveur, and several anthologies. For the past decade, Goodman has directed the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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