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The Art of Reading

The book is about a dancer-atturned camp guy named Ivan who disregards his boyfriend's blackness because his boyfriend's a transracial adoptee with money. And it's this tricky labyrinth of race and sexuality and class all within the confines of a Midwestern college town. "Every chapter I felt both like smart and dumb at the same time," Parker says.

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