{"product_id":"miss-abracadabra-paperback","title":"Miss Abracadabra - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLorraine \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor twenty-five years, Tom Ross has been amassing the semi-autobiographical history of the extended Franklin family. \u003ci\u003eMiss Abracadabra\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Ross\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMiss Abracadabra\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in \u003ci\u003eRaritan Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMiss Abracadabra\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734163951679,"sku":"9781646053544","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a8b71933f37aa384c198fe62e7937c0b.webp?v=1765138883","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/miss-abracadabra-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}