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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Miss Abracadabra

Miss Abracadabra

Ross, Tom

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1646053540
ISBN13: 9781646053544
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: Jan 14 2025
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In lyrical, unconstrained prose, debut author Tom Ross tells a story of intergenerational change and conflict in a Black American family in the pre-Civil Rights era.


Lorraine Rain Franklin--whose family made their way north as part of the Great Migration and have settled in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York--is lost. She stumbles through a series of questionable romantic encounters and assumed identities, and eventually into an unplanned pregnancy, struggling both to define herself in and against a fallen world and to achieve autonomy from her mother's repressive anxieties. Rain's misadventures are a parable of what it means to confront, however imperfectly, the contradictions of a Black community defining itself in midcentury America.

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