My Dear White and Black: A Novel of Modern Desires

They saw color. Then they found each other. Jack Black and Betty White meet in a city that still sorts people by the oldest categories of all. He carries a history that taught him he must always prove he is more than what others see. She carries a history that taught her she can pretend history has nothing to do with her. They fall in love while trying not to see color. They separate because they pretended it didn’t matter. And they return to each other only when they finally learn how to see color without turning it into a cage. This is not a love story that solves racism. No love story can. It is the story of two imperfect people who chose curiosity over assumption, closeness over categories, and each other over the story the world kept trying to write for them. Their names were Jack and Betty. The world called them Black and White. This is the story of how they learned the difference.