Cotton

Christopher Wilson

Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
3.60 · 10 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2005
Cotton by Christopher Wilson
From his Icelandic father, Lee Cotton gets his marble skin and blue eyes. From his mixedrace mother he gains his black identity. From his Mambo grandmother he inherits forebodings about his future. It's a combination that sets Lee apart from the other black kids growing up in Eureka, Mississippi. It marks Lee as slightly odd--and very white. If childhood was confusing, adolescence proves life changing when Lee falls in love with the sublime Angelina. It's also life threatening: Angel's father is a freelance shooter for the Klan, who doesn't take kindly to his daughter's boyfriend. Cotton gets kicked senseless and dumped for dead on a freight train, only to wake up in Charity Hospital, St. Louis, months later, a white man. It takes two years' convalescence to unscramble his senses in time for him to be drafted into the military in Nevada. There, an accident causes a disbarred surgeon to turn him into a woman to save his chance for love. In San Francisco, this budding feminist/lesbian begins to turn black. From white black boy, to white man, to white woman, to black woman, Cotton is a brilliant, moving and funny rollercoaster ride through America's preoccupation with race, sex and gender.
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