Miss Black America by Veronica Chambers
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.VERONICA CHAMBERS is a well-known novelist best known for her memoir Mama's Daughter, which received critical praise. She has cowritten New York Times bestselling adult autobiographies with Robin Roberts, Eric Ripert, Michael Strahan, and Marcus Samuelsson, and has authored more than a dozen books for children, including Plus and the Amigas series. Make It Messy, Samuelsson's young adult memoir, was also co-written by her. Veronica resides in Hoboken, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter. Her website is veronicachambers.com, and she can be found on Twitter as @vvchambers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780767914673 |
| ISBN 10 | 0767914678 |
| Title | Miss Black America |
| Author | Veronica Chambers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
| Year published | 2005-06-14 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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