Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

This is How it Goes

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Belinda and Cody Phipps appear a typical Midwestern couple: teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is black--"rich, black, and different," in the words of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a former classmate. As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly doubt the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry and betrayal. Staged on continually shifting moral ground that challenges our received notions about gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, This Is How It Goes unblinkingly explores the myriad ways in which the wild card of race is played by both black and white in America.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: March 05, 2005

ISBN: 0571211550

ISBN 13: 9780571211555

This is How it Goes

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Belinda and Cody Phipps appear a typical Midwestern couple: teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is black--"rich, black, and different," in the words of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a former classmate. As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly doubt the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry and betrayal. Staged on continually shifting moral ground that challenges our received notions about gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, This Is How It Goes unblinkingly explores the myriad ways in which the wild card of race is played by both black and white in America.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: March 05, 2005

ISBN: 0571211550

ISBN 13: 9780571211555

More books from Neil LaBute

The Shape of Things

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fat Pig

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Bash

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Some Girl(s)

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Autobahn

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Distance from Here: A Play

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Seconds of Pleasure

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love

3.5/5 ( ratings)

reasons to be pretty

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Outstanding Short Plays

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Money Shot: A Play

American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism: Break of Noon; 7/11; Omnium Gatherum; Columbinus; Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Spectaculum 73: Sechs moderne Theaterstücke

Fine... I'll Talk With You: Interviews Including Pulitzer, Tony, and Oscar Winning Playwrights and Screenwriters

Reasons to Be Pretty Happy: A Play

The Mercy Seat

The Mercy Seat: A Play

In a Forest, Dark and Deep

Significant Objects

Significant Objects

Rate this book!

Write a review?