{"product_id":"miss-abracadabra","title":"Miss Abracadabra","description":"\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\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\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57195075633534,"sku":"NW9781646053544","price":12.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781646053544.jpg?v=1778538722","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/miss-abracadabra","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}