By Nicole Bailey Williams

Shana Washington is the product of two very different worlds. Her white mother is a socialite with an Ivy League education; Shanaâs black father has a weakness for whiskey and canât stay faithful to any woman. But when his daughter is in peril, he always finds a way to rescue her. Hauntingly evoking the worlds represented by these three characters, Floating follows the life of Shana as she seeks acceptanceöand wholenessöfrom white and black communities that only turn her away. When she begins a college romance with Lionel, a handsome track star with bronze-colored skin, her dreams of finding a soul mate seem tantalizingly close to coming true. Yet Lionelâs childhood demons are even more vicious than Shanaâs, threatening the fragile love they canât admit to needing.
Tracing the themes of identity, healing, and self-acceptance that won such acclaim for her debut novel, Nicole Bailey Williams now shares a provocative new storyline for anyone who has faith in the power of self-discovery.