ISBN: 9781250839015
Editorial: Holt Paperbacks
Autor: Ferrell, Carolyn
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 432
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: About the Author 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 program, the John C. Zacharis 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 (DAAD), 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. A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelIntroducing an extraordinary and original writer in Carolyn Ferrell whose first novel Dear Miss Metropolitan explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another.Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. 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. Like Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan gives voice to characters surviving unimaginable tragedy. The story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel. Review Publishers Weekly's Best Book of 2021NPR's Books We Love 2021A July Indie Next PickCrime Reads: Best Debut Novels of 2021Bookforum Get Lit: Writers on their favorite books of 2021: Chosen by Elias Rodriques“The novel is not easy, but how could it be? . . . Dear Miss Metropolitan is devastating, but it shouldn’t be summed up as such. This is a blistering contribution to the cohort of contemporary literature focused on sexual violence. It is a novel that reads like a labyrinth, as complex as the trauma it depicts.”―Kate Elizabeth Russell, New York Times“[A] vivid maker of sentences with a flair for casual surrealisms . . . Ferrell is navigating American trauma writ large, as well as her characters’ own.” ―Dwight Garner, New York Times“I really did think, when I finished, 'This is a brilliant book.'. . . The book reminded me of Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad in that Ms. Ferrell also uses fantastical elements to talk about spans of experience that have more drama than we can stand.”―Joan Silber, The Wall Street Journal's "Who Read What: Writers Share Their Favorite Books of 2021"“I can guarantee, though, that you’ve never read a book quite like Carolyn Ferrell’s first novel . . . Not every mansion Ferrell visits yields secret troves of treasure, but she ensures they are all worth exploring.” ―USA Today“Entering into this book is like leaping into a pool either a little too hot or a little too cold―it’s bracing at first, but then you adapt and cannot imagine any other pool. . . . Throughout, Ferrell plucks like a guitar string the ostensible line that separates fiction from nonfiction. . . . Ferrell’s prose has a patter and a pulse, which is to say it is language that has been
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