Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories

by Toni Ann Johnson

In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They're cosmopolitan. Sophisticated. They're...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820363065
• ISBN13: 9780820363066
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"