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001			on1182021743
003			OCoLC
005			20210719144647.0
008			200729t20212021nyua 000 f eng
010			_a 2020034260
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dBDX _dYDX _dOCLCF _dZGY _dIFK _dIK2 _dIUK _dOCLCO _dILC _dOCLCO _dNFG
019			_a1240177553 _a1257414751
020			_a9781250793614 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1250793610 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1182021743 _z(OCoLC)1240177553 _z(OCoLC)1257414751
042			_apcc
092			_aFERRELL, _bCAROLYN
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aFerrell, Carolyn, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDear Miss Metropolitan / _cCarolyn Ferrell.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2106
264		1	_aNew York : _bHenry Holt and Company, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a419 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and other forms of media piece together the larger story. By the time they are rescued only two of them remain and in their aftermath the "victim females" are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as the survivors, now patients in a facility, continue to adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. The mystery of the disappearance and the illumination of myths about race, gender and the definitions of community and family are at the center of this inventive and urgent fable of survival"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_aFern 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. Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance. How could lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why were only two of the three girls-- now women-- found? The remaining victims are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. -- adapted from jacket
650		0	_aKidnapping _vFiction. _920215
650		0	_aKidnapping victims _vFiction. _965357
650		0	_aSurvival _vFiction. _92804
651		0	_aQueens (New York, N.Y.) _vFiction. _955251
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c331286 _d331286