| Miss Black America Contributor(s): Chambers, Veronica (Author) |
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ISBN: 0767914678 ISBN-13: 9780767914673 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.03" W x 8.87" (0.67 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 88718 Reading Level: 5.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |