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Also by Ann Petry:

Miss Muriel and Other Stories, January 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Country Place, January 2023
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The Street, March 1998
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Miss Muriel and Other Stories
Ann Petry

Mariner Books Classics
January 2023
On Sale: January 10, 2023
304 pages
ISBN: 0063260174
EAN: 9780063260177
Kindle: B09XHXSTT3
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction | Women's Fiction | Multicultural African-American

From the author of the bestselling novel The Street, comes a powerful collection of stories that captures a remarkably diverse panorama of African American experience in the 1950s and 1960s.

Asmall-town pharmacist’s decision to take a day off leads his wife to an agonizing encounter with the police. A retired Black college professor teaching at a predominately white high school is kidnapped and forced to witness an unthinkable horror. A young Black girl watches her aunt’s suitors threaten her family’s wellbeing, with repercussions that reverberate for decades. Ann Petry wrote these and the other extraordinary stories in this collection over half a century ago, but the problems they interrogate still exist today, incisively uncovering the consequences of America’s pervasive racism, while telling timeless stories of everyday lives, of aspiration, frustration, and love. Miss Muriel and Other Stories is “a delicate, unflinching probe into African-American existence” (Boston Globe) from one of the most gifted writers of the twentieth century. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry’s stories are “a delicate, unflinching probe into African-American existence” (Boston Globe) and an assertion of her status as one of the most gifted writers of the twentieth century. 

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