Refuse Number Theory Edith Wharton's second full-length work

Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class

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After a fateful encounter with the local purveyor of illusion

collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror

Refuse Number Theory Edith Wharton's second full-length workSet against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound