Dear Miss Metropolitan / Carolyn Ferrell.
Record details
- ISBN: 1250793610 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250793614 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250793614
- ISBN: 1250793610
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and other forms of media piece together the larger story. By the time they are rescued only two of them remain and in their aftermath the "victim females" are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as the survivors, now patients in a facility, continue to adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. The mystery of the disappearance and the illumination of myths about race, gender and the definitions of community and family are at the center of this inventive and urgent fable of survival"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Woodbury Public Library | FIC FERRELL (Text) | 34018150371708 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dear Miss Metropolitan : A Novel
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Author Notes
Dear Miss Metropolitan : A Novel
Carolyn Ferrell is the author of the short-story collection, Don't Erase Me , which was awarded the Art Seidenbaum Award of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the John C. Zachiris Award given by Ploughshares , and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also received grants from the Fulbright Association, German Academic Exchange (D.A.A.D.), City University of New York MAGNET Program, and National Endowment for the Arts. Ferrell's stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century , among other places. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York with her husband and children.