Dear Miss Metropolitan

Name: Dear Miss Metropolitan
Author: Carolyn Ferrell
ISBN: 9781250793621

Carolyn Ferrell

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Carolyn Ferrell

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Dear Miss Metropolitan won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. 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 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. 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. The story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel.

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