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Dear Miss Metropolitan
Like The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, this extraordinary debut creates powerful art from great tragedy. This is a haunting and heartbreaking story of three young women, Fern, Gwin and Jesenia, held prisoner under horrifying circumstances — and the community’s response to the girls’ trauma. It's an indelible story about grief and rage, crime and punishment, that also asks us to think about what healing means, and what it looks like for individuals and communities alike.
A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Introducing an extraordinary and original writer in Carolyn Ferrell whose first novel Dear Miss Metropolitan explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another.
Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jeseni...