Miss Abracadabra - Ross, Tom
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Erscheint vorauss. 14. Januar 2025
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"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 nearly all-white 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 hostile world and to achieve autonomy from her mother's repressive…mehr

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"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 nearly all-white 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 hostile 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. For 25 years, Tom Ross has been amassing the semi-autobiographical history of the extended Franklin family. Miss Abracadabra is the culmination and first extended publication from this astonishing storytelling project, which-through multiple viewpoints-fractures and reconfigures historical experience into infinite narrative possibilities"--
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Autorenporträt
Tom Ross writes about family history, using autobiographical elements as a point of fictional departure. He is a statistician in New York. "(I Am) a Very Stylish Girl," a chapter-length excerpt of Miss Abracadabra, was published in Raritan Quarterly. Miss Abracadabra is his first book.