Miss Black America

A dazzling fiction debut from the author of Mama's Girl, Miss Black America is the warm and tender story of Angela, a young girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Angela goes to school one ordinary day and returns home to find her glamorous and fiercely independent mother gone. Her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone, insists on keeping Melanie's disappearance shrouded in mystery. As Angela grows to womanhood and struggles to understand her mother's motivation for escaping the bonds of her family, she wryly observes, "My father was a magician, but my mother was the real Houdini."

A universal story that is both finely tuned and elegant, Miss Black America captures the intricacies, pleasures, contradictions, and complexities at the heart of every family. Spare and finely told, this novel will seep beneath your skin and stay with you long after the last page has been turned.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 06/14/2005
ISBN: 9780767914673
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.87h x 5.03w x 0.64d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 76
Ebony 06/01/2005 pg. 30

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 88718 / When Did You Stop Loving Me?/Miss Black America
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10