Interview with Debut Crime Novelist John Vercher About Race and Identity
John Vercher's debut crime novel, THREE-FIFTHS, is about a young man of mixed race whose best friend, after going to prison, comes out a white nationalist. Vercher, who is half black and half white, said in the interview that the book was inspired in part by his struggles with racial identity and the impact of the O.J. Simpson trial, which occurred while he was in college in Pittsburgh.
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