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:. Our Brother the Native + Zen Zen Egui: 26 October 2009 - London

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Reviews

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

By Michael Buening

By saying Not is not Sidney Poitier, the reader is tempted to compare him to Sidney Poitier just as the characters do, when the author is pointedly saying that we shouldn’t. [23 July 2009]

The Water Cure by Percival Everett

By Andrew Ervin

Percival Everett, an innovative writer of contemporary fiction, tells a story violent and crude, yet captivating in The Water Cure. [5 December 2007]