Oreo

Fran Ross

UPNE, 1974 - Fiction - 212 pages

Born to a Jewish father and black mother who divorce before she is two, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia with her maternal grandparents while her mother tours with a theatrical troupe. Soon after puberty, Oreo heads for New York with a pack on her back to search for her father; but in the big city she discovers that there are dozens of Sam Schwartzes in the phone book, and Oreo's mission turns into a wickedly humorous picaresque quest. The ambitious and playful narrative challenges accepted notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and even the novelistic form itself.

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Review: Oreo

User Review  - Tisa - Goodreads

Fran Ross' Oreo is an incredible novel that lays the common overlooked magic of racial and cultural mixings, assimilation and multiple identity bare. Its humor, irony, satire and sarcasm has an ...

Review: Oreo (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)

User Review  - Lisa - Goodreads

I think I heard about this book on NPR's "You must read this". If this book isn't being taught in college literature classes, it should be! There is so much complexity: the wit, equations, riddles ...

Contents

• Mispoc: 3
• llye Cube and the Pip 1: 11
• Heienk Letters: 23
• Pets Playmates Pedagogues: 37
• Tokens Deposited: 62
• Tdta Troezevi: 82
• Peripetes: 91
• Sims: 105
• Ped: 126
• SciroM: 138
• CercYjOM: 151
• Procrustes Cepfassus Arjoo Detpfanius: 164
• MecJefl Aegeus: 172
• Minos Pasipbae Arifldne: 187
• PflndioM: 193
• A Key for Speed Readers Noncflssicists Etc: 209

Bibliographic information

• Title: Oreo; Library of Black Literature; The Northeastern Library of Black literature
• Author: Fran Ross
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: UPNE, 1974
• ISBN: 1555534643, 9781555534646
• Length: 212 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Women's Studies