outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and sheas been raised to think sheas white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter heas never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday forinterracial lovers. A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love. Praise for Loving Day aIncisive . . . razor-sharp . . . Loving Day is that rare mAclange: cerebral comedy with pathos. The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. He has the neurotic bawdiness of Philip Rothas Alexander Portnoy; the keen, caustic eye of Bob Jones in Chester Himesas If He Hollers Let Him Go; the existential insight of Ellisonas Invisible Man.aaThe New York Times Book Review aExceptional . . . To say that Loving Day is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales. . . .