Oreo

<p><b>With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i>, Marlon James.</b><br><br>Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find her father, and discover the secret of her birth.<br><br>What ensues in Fran Ross's opus is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb.<br><br>Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.<br><br><b>'<i>Oreo</i>'s satire on racial identity reads like a story for our times . . . Could <i>Oreo </i>be this year's <i>Stoner</i>? – <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b>‘A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I’ve stumbled across in recent years’ – Paul Auster, author of </b><b><i>The New York Trilogy.</i></b></p>