<p>The story of a developing friendship between the aujavascript:void(0)thor and her Arab-American typist during the late 'sixties and early 'seventies. It reads like fiction, but the characters and places are all real. It is non-fiction fiction and you could call it a love story, a meta-novel, a social document, a feminist parable, a cautionary tale about race, a goofy and sexy cock-and-bull story, a tale of child-abuse, an oral history set in Niagara Falls, NY, and a lot of other things. But you won't call it any of them, because all the people in it really exist and really engage your understanding, without any identity-politics grandstanding. Carole Southwood has no thesis to preach, no fine sentiments to parade, no profundity or cleverness to impress you with. She knows that truth is indeed stranger than fiction but does not need a sensational truth to convince you-this is not In Cold Blood or The Executioner's Song, but non-fiction fiction of a much finer sort-a story so true and so real that it would never work as a movie. \"Much like the work of Jennifer Egan, the story of Abdoo is one that makes me excited to be a reader and a writer, drinking in the complex relationship between the author and her subject while being inspired about the potential of language and storytelling to dig deep into some of the most difficult conversations we can have about ourselves and the places we live." - Amy Bass, author of ONE GOAL and THOSE ABOUT HIM REMAINED SILENT</p>

Abdoo: The Biography of a Piece of White Trash

Literature & Fiction

Carole Southwood

Contemporary

Outriders Poetry Project

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Abdoo: The Biography of a Piece of White Trash

Abdoo: The Biography of a Piece of White Trash