Black Card

A Novel

By: Chris L. Terry

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

With dark humor, Chris L. Terry's Black Card is an uncompromising examination of American identity. In an effort to be "black enough", a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call "black stuff". After remaining silent during a racist incident, the unnamed narrator has his Black Card revoked by Lucius, his guide through Richmond, Virginia, where Confederate flags and memorials are a part of everyday life.

Determined to win back his Black Card, the narrator sings rap songs at an all-white country music karaoke night, absorbs black pop culture, and goes out with his black coworker Mona, who is attacked one night. The narrator becomes the prime suspect and earns the attention of John Donahue, a local police officer with a grudge dating back to high school. Forced to face his past, his relationships with his black father and white mother, and the real consequences and dangers of being black in America, the narrator must choose who he is before the world decides for him.

©2019 Chris L. Terry (P)2019 HighBridge Company

pretty entertaining

this book was pretty entertaining. Gave some insight into the black Americsn culture and the pressures of fitting in to that culture based on ideas of what black culture is.

powerful

from the first sentence, this book had me hooked. it's powerful, emotional, and completely relatable. best freshest book I've read in a long time.