I enjoyed the dark humor, the fact that this is based on Loving Day, and the fact that much of this seems autobiographical.

In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my fathers house.

Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has co.

Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia.

On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass.

When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear.

The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead.

Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter hes never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well.

In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers.

A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love.

In doing so, he comes to embrace his heritage and develop his own identity.

Broke and reeling from the failure of his marriage and failed comic bookstore business, his plan is to burn down the dilapidated mansion that he inherited from his later father and use the insurance money to start over.

However, while attending a comic book convention, his life is turned upside down by the revelation that he has a 17 year old daughter, Tal.

Warren, the son of a white father and black mother, is light skinned and resembles more of an Irish man, identifies as a black man.

Horrified that Tal identifies as white, Warren makes it a mission to have his daughter learn about her black heritage and culture.

He takes Tal on a tour of different tours of area schools and she persuades him to let her go the Mlange Center for Multiracial Life.

Tal gets quickly sucked into the world of Mlange, whereas Warren remains resistant and views the institution as a cult.

He fights to the end against Mlange, and finally makes peace with his past.

Loving Day is an enjoyable read, filled with humor and a lot of heart.

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