John Vercher is a novelist, short story writer and essayist whose fiction and nonfiction dealing with issues of race, identity, and parenting has appeared in Entropy Magazine, Cognoscenti, NPR and WBUR. His acclaimed debut novel, Three-Fifths, won starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal and praise from everyone else. This week he discusses his writing and themes with Oddcast cohosts Jon McGoran, Gregory Frost, Kelly Simmons, Merry Jones & Keith Strunk.