
Miss Abracadabra
by Tom Ross
Title:
Miss Abracadabra
Author:
Tom Ross
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
375 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-13:
9781646053544
EAN:
9781646053544
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
408
Dimensions (mm):
215 x 140 x 18
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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 Franklinwhose family made their way north as part of the Great Migration and have settled in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New Yorkis 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 mothers repressive anxieties. Rains misadventures are a parable of what it means to confront, however imperfectly, the contradictions of a Black community defining itself in midcentury America.For twenty-five 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, whichthrough multiple viewpointsfractures and reconfigures historical experience into infinite narrative possibilities.










