Dear Miss Metropolitan

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. Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matt...

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Main Author: Ferrell, Carolyn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: 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. 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. How could lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why were only two of the three girls-- now women-- found? The remaining victims are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description: 419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781250793614
1250793610
Author Notes: 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, the John C. Zachiris 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 (D.A.A.D.), 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.