03333cam a2200541 4500 595385580 TxAuBib 20220529120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250804709 1250804701 b260560b-cc1a-4b52-8803-f16c214bb0cb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5715383 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ferrell, Carolyn. Dear Miss Metropolitan [Libby] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2021. books on tape. Friendship. African American Literature. rape. audiobooks. sexual assault. kidnapping. survivors. trauma. missing person. Contemporary. violence. audio book. new york city. abduction. mother daughter relationship. black women writers. debut authors. ownvoices. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 308MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 308MB. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing—and what we owe one another.</b><br /> Fern seeks refuge from her mother's pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwen finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation's dismay and Jessenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matter to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens.<br /> On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance. Among them is lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, but how could anyone who fancies herself a "newspaperwoman" have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why is it that only two of the three girls—now women—were found? The mystery haunts the two remaining "victim girls" who are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past.<br /> Like Emma Donoghue's <i>Room</i>, Carolyn Ferrell's <i>Dear Miss Metropolitan</i> gives voice to characters surviving unimaginable tragedy. Inspired by real events, the story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company</b></p>. Media Type: Audiobook. PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-28 20:00:02. Turpin, Bahni. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b260560b-cc1a-4b52-8803-f16c214bb0cb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b260560b-cc1a-4b52-8803-f16c214bb0cb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)