Your Face in Mine

In this provocative medical drama set in near-future Baltimore, forty-year-old radio station manager Kelly Thorndike encounters his former high-school classmate, whose astonishing transformation spurs Kelly to confront his past and face his choices. Martin Lipkin, once the white Jewish bassist in Kelly’s teenage rock band, is now a wealthy African-American international entrepreneur, married to a gorgeous African-American woman with two adopted African-American daughters. Martin Lipkin underwent racial reassignment surgery (RRS) and now identifies as Martin Wilkinson. An enigmatic gender-reassignment surgeon in Bangkok has added RRS to his repertoire, perfecting the processes of changing skin color, hair texture, facial structure, and beyond to achieve total metamorphoses.

Martin asks Kelly to document the story of his racial reassignment as part of his campaign to advocate the procedure to a global market. Stagnating in grief for the recent deaths of his Chinese wife and daughter, Kelly is desperate for purpose and radical change. He agrees to help Martin tell his story, unfurling a web of intrigue that propels him toward a future he never imagined possible.