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Dear Miss Metropolitan  Cover Image Book Book

Dear Miss Metropolitan / Carolyn Ferrell.

Ferrell, Carolyn, (author.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250793614
  • ISBN: 1250793610
  • Physical Description: 419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Subject: Kidnapping > Fiction.
Kidnapping victims > Fiction.
Queens (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Survival fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 11 of 11 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library FICTION FERRELL 2021 (Text) 0001002458667 Fiction Available -

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