author results for Ferrell, Carolyn,

Dear Miss Metropolitan

Ferrell, Carolyn — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

"Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and other forms of media piece together the larger story. By the time they are rescued only two of them remain and in their aftermath the "victim females" are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as the survivors, now patients in a facility, continue to adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. The mystery of the disappearance and the illumination of myths about race, gender and the definitions of community and family are at the center of this inventive and urgent fable of survival"-- Provided by publisher.

Don't Erase Me

Ferrell, Carolyn — Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT

Dear Miss Metropolitan

Ferrell, Carolyn — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Dear Miss Metropolitan

Ferrell, Carolyn — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
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.
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 Jessenia, 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

Shaking the Tree

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

A new anthology of fiction and memoir by African American women writers showcases twenty-three fresh voices in American literature, including Rebecca Walker, ZZ Packer, Danzy Senna, and Carolyn Ferrell.

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The Best American Short Stories 2020

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Because I Love Her

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This Is Not Chick Lit

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

110 Stories

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, some of New York's leading authors of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose reflect on the event.