Examines the concept of “whiteness” in American fiction by comparing :”white flight” into suburbs or gentrified downtowns to white writers who set their stories in isolated of emotionally insulated landscapes, including Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard and David Foster Wallace. Original A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine, this work is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present.
