When Ana Christina Emily (aka ACE) returned to her home after a four-year walkabout she experienced one shock after another.

Her late mother turned out to be her adoptive mother.

Her father, who went missing shortly before her first birthday, now appeared to have sneaked to England, where he recently died.

While traveling to the UK, where she was expected in Bath for the reading of her father's will, she had to change flights in Kuala Lumpur.

In the departure hall, an unknown Asian girl gav...

n this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone....