Mark Wisniewski's latest novel is Watch Me Go.From his Q & A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: Race is one of the topics running through the book. Why did you decide to include that as a major theme?--Marshal Zeringue
A: I think race became a theme in Watch Me Go because, for a number of years now in this country, racists have made it a theme.
In other words, Watch Me Go is about race, yes, but to me it's long been about more than race. It's about injustice and power-playing and sexism and the near-impossibility of people climbing out of desperation via The American Dream.
I suppose one can say that, now, the insistence some haters have in being racist has made much of that injustice worse. I don't know. It's all rather tragic to me. I'd hoped maybe this book could help improve matters for some, but...[read on]