It's not a perfect 5, but is much closer to 5 than 4 and instantly one of my favorite books of all time. Schuyler takes a rather bizarre premise and plays it out to expose the ridiculous nature of racial logic and those who would uphold, regardless of theor motives. It goes beyond the critiques that you even get in Larsen by embracing not only comedy and satire, but by realizing the socialist politics that are the next step once we stop worrying about what race is and does and start worrying about the real issue, which is how do we confront racism