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I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (adapted into an Oscar-nominated film).

The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an Oscar-winning actor, and serious amount of shares in the Turner Corporation.

Percival Everett’s novel follows Not Sidney’s tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin colour with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not Sidney learns to navigate a world that doesn’t know what to do with him.

©2023 Percival Everett (P)2023 Tantor Absurdist African American Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Fostering

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A tale written with great humour and satirical skill, absolutely page turning, captures the black expression and experience in a way that unimaginable.

Absolutely Genius

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I loved the forthrightness, humour and observations of the narrator, his dialogue with other characters, the playfulness of the connections to Sidney Poitier films - and the plot is brilliant.

Humorous, complex and a gripping plot

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