Just Call Me Whitey, a Novel of White Privilege and Black Lives

Just Call Me Whitey is a coming of age story set in a half-forgotten America at the cusp of tectonic nationaland generationalchanges that still deeply resonate. It reveals a time and place when America was only first emerging from its sordid history of bigotry and hate, where a black man could not become President of the United States and was routinely denied even societys most common conveniences such as the use of a lunch counter or a public drinking fountain. The focus is on the life of Bill Doyle as he learns to relate his own life to others without using the color bar. Time and toil have rendered an earlier version of Bills story, published in 2010 as Smartass, An Awakening, even more relevant today. Brian Kelly graduated from Harvard with honors in English in 1967. He is currently working on four additional novels, Our American, Mother Russia, Commie Spy and The Soviet Patriot From Brooklyn, to complete a Russian quintet which began with The Irish Smuggler, a tale of international criminal adventure, published in 2013. Our American will be published in 2016 and Mother Russia in early 2017. Kellys first novel, Tropic of Paradise, A Tahitian Love story, published in 2010, is another coming of age tale, but set on the island of love in a golden hued South Pacific. Kelly currently lives and works far from Tahiti, in Bushwick, Brooklyn.