pstrongDisarmingly funny. - emThe New York TimesemstrongppstrongFrom the award-winning author of emUnder the Udala Treesem and emHappiness, Like Waterem comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man's education and miseducation in contemporary America.strongppHarry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They're racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have quite a few secrets of their own. To Harry, they represent everything wrong with this country. And his small town isn't any better. He witnesses racial profiling, graffitied swastikas, and White Power signs on his walk home from school. He can't wait until he's old enough to leave. When he finally is, he moves straight to New York City, where he feels he can finally live out his true inner self.ppIn the city, he meets and falls in love with Maryam, a young Nigerian woman. But when Maryam begins to pull away,