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ISBN-10: 0810135566
ISBN-13: 9780810135567
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 07/15/2017
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.90" H

Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Foreword by: Jamilah LeMieux

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Overview

A young black girl watches as her aunt’s multiple suitors disrupt her family’s privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family’s growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again and again: the reluctance of African Americans to seek help from the police, the rage that erupts in a black man worn down by brutality, the tyranny that the young can visit on their elders regardless of race. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry’s stories capture the essence of African American experience since the 1940s.

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"Ann Petry is an important, if underappreciated, American writer. The first to provide emotionally complex portraits of urban working-class African Americans, particularly women, Petry wrote fiction that is original, compelling, and timeless. Her political and aesthetic sensibilities continue to inform and influence new generations of writers, critics, and literary theorists."–Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
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Details

ISBN-10: 0810135566
ISBN-13: 9780810135567
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 07/15/2017
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.90" H
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