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(). · An “oreo” is, of course, not simply a black-and-white cookie but also the standard taunt directed at black people who appear to “act white.”. Ross embraces this epithet, embraces the idea Is Accessible For Free: False. · Oreo is the story of the biracial daughter of an African-American woman and Jewish father, a man named Samuel Schwartz, who disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind only a Author: Mat Johnson.
Oreo by Fran Ross starting at $ Oreo has 2 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. Fran Ross' Oreo is one of the funniest books I've ever read, but I've never quoted it. To do so, I would have to put quotations before the first page and then again at the last. Instead, I just use the words so many others who have been privileged to encounter Oreo use to describe it: hilarious, uproarious, insane. Fran Ross was an African American author best known for her novel Oreo. Born on J, in Philadelphia, she was the eldest daughter of Gerald Ross, a store clerk, and Bernatta Bass Ross, a welder.
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. 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. A Review of Oreo by Fran Ross. (New York, NY: New Directions, ) It may come as a surprise to many readers of Fran Ross’s Oreo, recently rereleased by New Directions, that upon the book’s first appearance in , the story failed to find its audience. Oreo has something for everyone: It is a minefield of irreverent wit, with laughs detonating from every paragraph; it is a picaresque adventure, heralding one of the most badass-yet-endearing heroines ever to swagger across the pages of.
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