{"product_id":"9781646053544","title":"Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross","description":"In 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.   Lorraine \"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.   For twenty-five years, Tom Ross has been amassing the semi-autobiographical history of the extended Franklin family. Miss Abracadabra 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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302746763637,"sku":"9781646053544","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781646053544.jpg?v=1762793176","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781646053544","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}