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The Professor's Daughter - by Emily Raboteau (Paperback)

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  • "My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.
  • About the Author: Emily Raboteau is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award and a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship.
  • 288 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



A daughter's future and her father's past converge in this explosive first novel exploring identity, assimilation, and the legacy of race, and marking the arrival of an astonishingly original voice that surges with energy and purpose.



Book Synopsis



"My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate--if not always diplomatically--the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound by a haunting past that Emma slowly uncovers, she sees that she might just escape.

In exhilarating prose, The Professor's Daughter traces the borderlands of race and family, contested territory that gives rise to rage, confusion, madness, and invisibility. This astonishingly original voice surges with energy and purpose.



Review Quotes




"A first-rate job, a book that shows great subtlety and skill." --Robert Stone

"Raboteau paints Emma's world with grand, sweeping strokes. . . . Her timing is excellent, her humor is wry, her voice is on point, and her eye works with laser-like precision. Raboteau's sensitivity to life and to people is nothing short of astounding." --Francesca Wodtke, San Francisco Chronicle

"A bolt of energy . . . Fearless and . . . inventive, Raboteau is a writer to watch." --O magazine

"The world that Emily Raboteau has so wonderfully created here is at turns harsh, beautiful, strange, and always real. This work is unflinchingly intelligent." --Percival Everett, author of Erasure




About the Author



Emily Raboteau is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award and a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches creative writing at the City College of New York.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .85 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Format: Paperback
Author: Emily Raboteau
Language: English
Street Date: January 24, 2006
TCIN: 90813868
UPC: 9780312425685
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-2824
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 0.85 pounds
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