I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

This consummately original tale sets out to answer the question, "Then, Who am I?" The journey brilliantly parodies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and Lilies of the Field with great subtlety. Also, The Defiant Ones and Buck and the Preacher. In addition, it's quite amazing to witness the license that Everett takes in including the personas of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda in his wacky cast of characters as well as inserting himself as an eccentric philosophy instructor. That's all I have to say except that this is one of the most thoroughly enjoyable and incisive pieces of fiction that I have read in a very long time.