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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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“Chambers gives us a good glimpse of the inner life of a talented girl making her way in the world.” —Kirkus Reviews
“[An] exquisite first novel.” —Booklist
“You’ll be moved.” —Marie Claire
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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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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 11 books | 3 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - CAPs: Uncle Roger, New York, Miss Black America, Muhammad Ali, Billy Dee (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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It was 1979 and escape was heavy in the air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Roger, New York, Miss Black America, Muhammad Ali, Billy Dee, Long Island, Reggie Jackson, Angela Davis Brown, Emily Post, Evelyn Woods, Good Times, Diana Ross, Holyoke School, New Jersey, Amazing Magician, Atlantic City, Cleopatra Jones, Curtis Mayfield, Dinah Shore, Foxy Brown, Marvin Gaye, Reggie Bar, Terry Bradshaw, Amsterdam News, Brenda Starr New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt |
It was 1979 and escape was heavy in the air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Roger, New York, Miss Black America, Muhammad Ali, Billy Dee, Long Island, Reggie Jackson, Angela Davis Brown, Emily Post, Evelyn Woods, Good Times, Diana Ross, Holyoke School, New Jersey, Amazing Magician, Atlantic City, Cleopatra Jones, Curtis Mayfield, Dinah Shore, Foxy Brown, Marvin Gaye, Reggie Bar, Terry Bradshaw, Amsterdam News, Brenda Starr New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt |