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Miss Black America

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A dazzling fiction debut from the author of Mama’s Girl, Miss Black America is the warm and tender story of Angela, a young girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Angela goes to school one ordinary day and returns home to find her glamorous and fiercely independent mother gone. Her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone, insists on keeping Melanie’s disappearance shrouded in mystery. As Angela grows to womanhood and struggles to understand her mother’s motivation for escaping the bonds of her family, she wryly observes, “My father was a magician, but my mother was the real Houdini.”
A universal story that is both finely tuned and elegant, Miss Black America captures the intricacies, pleasures, contradictions, and complexities at the heart of every family. Spare and finely told, this novel will seep beneath your skin and stay with you long after the last page has been turned.

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Publisher: Crown

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780307419132
  • Release date: December 18, 2007

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307419132
  • Release date: December 18, 2007

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307419132
  • File size: 632 KB
  • Release date: December 18, 2007

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.4
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:4

A dazzling fiction debut from the author of Mama’s Girl, Miss Black America is the warm and tender story of Angela, a young girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Angela goes to school one ordinary day and returns home to find her glamorous and fiercely independent mother gone. Her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone, insists on keeping Melanie’s disappearance shrouded in mystery. As Angela grows to womanhood and struggles to understand her mother’s motivation for escaping the bonds of her family, she wryly observes, “My father was a magician, but my mother was the real Houdini.”
A universal story that is both finely tuned and elegant, Miss Black America captures the intricacies, pleasures, contradictions, and complexities at the heart of every family. Spare and finely told, this novel will seep beneath your skin and stay with you long after the last page has been turned.

Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Crown

    Kindle Book
    ISBN: 9780307419132
    Release date: December 18, 2007

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780307419132
    Release date: December 18, 2007

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780307419132
    File size: 632 KB
    Release date: December 18, 2007

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 5.4
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 4