I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the other characters in

and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive

She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks

his horrible aunt and uncle

continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem

the country estate of his wealthy benefactress

I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the other characters inI Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of