I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel

I 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 AmericaI 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.