- and creates a politically correct firestorm over it.  
In the Berkshires, at Athena College, a former boxer finds himself "back in the tornado," as he puts it.  Some of his troubles are self-inflicted, including an affair with Faunia Farley, an illiterate janitor, given extra kick thanks to his use of Viagra.  But an young scholar fresh from Yale, Delphine Roux, seizes on an innocent comment of his - "Do they exist or are they spooks?" - and creates a politically correct firestorm over it.  This is all ironic, as Coleman Silk has kept his own identity as a black man hidden.  FTP, identify this 2000 novel, which features Nathan Zuckerman, a work of Philip Roth.
In the Berkshires, at Athena College, a former boxer finds himself "back in the tornado," as he puts it.  
The Human Stain