Miss Muriel and Other Stories
By Ann Petry
Read by Ryan Vincent Anderson and Amber Reauchean Williams
Unabridged
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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9798228858978
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ISBN: 9798228858992
| Runtime: | 9.40 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
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 70 years ago, yet in them, contemporary listeners 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 since the 1940s.
Author
Author Bio: Ann Petry
Ann Petry (1908–1997), a black novelist and short-story writer, was one of America’s most distinguished authors. Her first published story appeared in 1943 in Crisis, a magazine published monthly by the NAACP. Her first novel, The Street, was published in 1946 and earned her the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. She wrote two more novels as well as numerous short stories, articles, and children’s books.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
| Runtime: | 9.40 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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