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      Miss Muriel and other stories

      by Ann Lane Petry
      Published
      Jan 1971
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      305
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      A young black girl watches as her aunt's multiple suitors disrupt her  family's privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family's growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than fifty years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again and again : the reluctance of African Americans to seek help from the police; the rage that erupts in a black man worn down by brutality; the tyranny that the young can visit on their elders regardless of race. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry's stories capture the essence of the African American experience in the 1950s and 1960s.

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      First Edition Jan 1971 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780395126714 ISBN10 0395126711
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