The Total Emasculation of the White Man

From the author of the “powerful, fable-like work” Intimate Relations with Strangers(Publishers Weekly) comes a dark comedy about a teenage boy who takes mind control to the next level and weaves a web of chaos to get revenge.

With a device that enables him to control the minds of other people, the teenage boy at the center of this novel has powers just short of godly, and he’s not afraid to use them. Especially after opening his bedroom door one day to discover his grandmother having drunken sex with a black man—in his own bed. Driven over the edge by his family’s actions, the teenager turns against his grandmother, his father, and his father’s assistant, programming them to do his bidding or leaving holes in their memory.

After taking revenge on his family, the teenager decides to pair together a couple named Felix and Cassiopeia, who must carry out their controller’s increasingly erratic schemes. In their travels, Felix comes upon a store selling an unapologetically racist and sexist book called The Total Emasculation of the White Man—which sets him off on a new and even stranger quest. Meanwhile, only one person is aware of the teenager’s role in the ongoing chaos…and he must act soon if the farce is ever to come to an end.

Blending elements of fantasy, time travel, family drama, and comedy, The Total Emasculation of the White Manwill challenge your views of gender and race relations while entertaining you with a funny, provocative tale unlike anything you’ve read before.