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This ambitious, groundbreaking novel takes on the taboo subject of racial hatred within British society.
Alfred White, keeper of London's Albion Park, protects its grounds as if they were the last vestiges of an ideal England. He shows the same stern devotion to his family, but when illness confines him to a hospital bed he is forced to acknowledge that he has failed them. His eldest son is emotionally crippled by his father's violent temper; his daughter, Shirley, has rejected him; and his younger boy, Dirk, is filled with inarticulate hatred. The White Family, a finalist for the 2002 Orange Prize, lays bare the roots of racism in contemporary Britain, but it is equally a novel about love and the ways love and anger can become tangled. Maggie Gee stumbles slightly with Dirk, but her book takes flight when it focuses on the conflicted loyalties of Alfred's wife, May, and on Shirley's determination to see her relationships with black men as more than an act of defiance. Gee's writing maintains a careful balance between realism and allegory, and the result is wrenching, not least because she dares to end the novel with the possibility of redemption: ''Close up, you see the two separate streams … the angry looks, the different skins. Move back a little, and you see the river. It has two banks, but all of it mourns.'' — Simon Leake
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