It’s witty, dirty, socially smart and a little bit visionary, but no one’s heard of it. At least until now. Oreo didn’t get a lot of attention when it was first published in by writer and comedian Fran Ross, but with a brand-new reprint, hopefully more readers will get their hands it/5(). · by Fran Ross. With a contribution by Danzy Senna Harryette Mullen. Oreo is 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 that triggers her quest to find www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Oreo by Fran Ross is the story of the biracial daughter of a Black woman and Jewish father, a man named Samuel Schwartz, who disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind only a note that told her to later seek him and the mystery of her birth/5.
Fran Ross () grew up in Philadelphia. She wrote Oreo while working as a proofreader and journalist, and then moved to Los Angeles to write for Richard Pryor. Danzy Senna is the author of several books, including the award-winning novel Caucasia. West Philly author Fran Ross published a novel in that the world ignored. Now, she's a literary force. Heroines don't always show up the way that Fran Ross wrote Oreo. Oreo was cut from an entirely different cloth. While Oreo shares many attributes with Blaxploitation heroines of the era, her. Oreo by Fran Ross, Paperback (ISBN: ) Book 89 in the Picador Classic series. Oreo's quest is to find her father, and discover the secret of her birth. What ensues in Fran Ross's opus is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in.
Oreo is a satirical novel by Fran Ross, a journalist and, briefly, a comedy writer for Richard Pryor. The novel, addressing issues of a mixed-heritage child, was considered "before its time" and went out of print until Harryette Mullen rediscovered the novel and brought it out of obscurity. The book has since acquired cult classic status. It is one of few satirical novels written by a Black woman. It is Ross’ first and last novel. The critical consensus is that Oreo is an out-and-out masterpiece, a virtuosic tour de force. Ross, now regarded as a genius, like so many Black visionaries, did not hold that regard in life. Oreo's identity is always in flux, as she performs various personas to suit her situations, switching between registers with superhuman skill. First published in and now reissued in paperback, Ross' novel, with its Joycean language games and keen social critique, is as playful as it is profound. Criminally overlooked. A knockout. Kirkus Reviews.
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