{"product_id":"miss-abracadabra-9781646053544","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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646053544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Tom Ross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45038226309301,"sku":"9781646053544","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_61b1a8a5-4f86-4d26-b074-85fbec8f120e.jpg?v=1737475162","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/miss-abracadabra-9781646053544","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}