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October 16th, 2009

Drew Toal: The Last Book I Loved, I am Not Sidney Poitier

My only previous exposure to Percival Everett had been his book American Desert, which I had liked but not loved.

So it was with middling expectations that I picked up his last novel, I am Not Sidney Poitier.A day or two later, I could confidently say that this was, and would be, the funniest book I read all year, if not ever. …more

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Drew Toal reps South Jersey, works at Time Out New York magazine, occasionally writes for Bookslut and blogs infrequently at HTMLGiant.

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