![]() Warren is unaware of Tal's existence until he meets her during the course of the novel. Tal, raised as a White girl, had been in the care of her Jewish grandfather. He reunites with his daughter, Tal, who was conceived after a romance he had in his teenage years. Warren had been in a marriage with a Welsh woman and managed a comic book shop in Cardiff, Wales the marriage ended in divorce and the shop had closed, so Warren is back in Philadelphia. ![]() Duffy's mother, who was black, had died long ago. The novel, set in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, is about Warren Duffy, a comic book artist who received a mansion from his deceased father, an Irish-American. Supreme Court nullified bans on interracial marriage. ![]() The novel's title refers to Loving Day, when the U.S. Johnson described the book as "my coming out as a mulatto" and Baz Dreisinger of The New York Times described Loving Day as "a semi-autobiographical" "extended literary metaphor about race and mixed-race in America." Loving Day is a 2015 novel by Mat Johnson, published by Spiegel & Grau on May 26, 2015. ![]()
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