PositiveBookreporterJohn Woman poses many questions: What does it mean to be good or evil? What is power? What is accountability? What does it mean to be a man or a woman? Throughout this story about stories, these questions are asked and answered. But are they really? For example, later in the book, Mosley occasionally uses the names \'John\' and \'CC\' interchangeably. So who is John Woman? Each time Mosley sets him up to move in one direction, he throws us by sending him somewhere else and reminding us again of John’s thesis that history is unreliable. Mosley’s writing is like good jazz, full of the unexpected. This award-winning artist gives us an original story with philosophical ponderings and a penetrating look at race, sexuality, class and education. In the end, John Woman is about the age-old question \'Who am I?\' and the multitude of variables that come into play when one attempts an answer.
