The Human Stain--#97 finished

I had this book for a while in my stacks and saw that it was one to read for the 21st century or something like that kind of list.  Figured now was as good a time as any for it.  An interesting read about a small college former Dean.  It goes back to him growing up as a light skinned African American in New Jersey.  He was able to pass himself as white when joining the army and continued with that.  He took one girlfriend back to meet his mom & siblings and after the visit, she basically freaked out & broke it off not realizing he was black--he didn't mention anything about it beforehand either.  So from then on, he broke off his life with his family & became a white Jewish professor and then Dean.  He married and had kids.  He stepped back to professor from Dean but then lost his job and life kinda went to hell.  A sort of narrator is telling the story, a writer that was doing a book on his life.  Sort of confusing and to me seemed to just go on and on about things.  Struggled to get through this book.

There is 1 WL for it on PBS but have enough credits right now so no hurry to post it but will probably do so at some point.