Changing Skins [Paperback]

Len Dabundo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 21, 2004

Dr. Bob Birchwood , a professor of microbiology and his wife, Myrna , a free-lancing child psychologist living in the Pinelands agree to foster-parent a four and a half year old black youngster now being cared for by the county juvenile authorities. Victor, the boy, was abandoned by his mother, a street-walker and drug addict the day he was born in a Camden hospital because he has a severe case of vitiligo. His body is covered with white unpigmented circles about an inch wide from his head down to his feet. The Birchwoods reside on some thirteen acres which includes an animals raised for testing purposes section and a lab where Dr, Birchwood performs contracted for testing. At this same time , Dr. Bob contracts with a former student who now owns a small cosmetics company to work on the development of a

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About the Author

The author is a retired electric utility engineer who became interested in things that divide us -- like skin color. He has spent the last five years of his life looking into the body's production of melanin and the efforts being made to alter it. This novel is an outgrowth of these past five years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 246 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris, Corp. (October 21, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413465897
• ISBN-13: 978-1413465891
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,515,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)