I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel Funeral Service The only thing that keeps

The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island

”—Leila Mottley

By night’s end

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel Funeral Service The only thing that keepsI 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