Talented Ribkins
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2016 winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and riffing
off W.E.B. Du Bois' famous essay, this marvelously inventive novel
tells the story of Johnny Ribkins, a 72-year old African-American
antiques dealer from Florida who was born with a unique talent.At
72, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: He's got one week
to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's
curtains.Luckily, Johnny comes from an African-American family that
has super powers. Well… sort of super powers. His father, for
example, could see in the dark. His brother could scale walls. His
cousin spits fire, and Johnny himself can make precise maps of any
space you name, whether he's been there or not.&,nbsp,In the
old days, the Ribkins tried to apply their gifts to the civil
rights effort. But disappointed at how that turned out, Johnny and
his brother used their talents to stage a series of daring
cat-burglar robberies. After his brother died of a drug overdose,
though, Johnny blamed himself, and stashed their money in hiding
spots all over Florida and tried to forget it.&,nbsp,In need of
that money decades later, with his boss's goons tailing him, Johnny
drives to his brother's old place to dig up his first stash and
makes a remarkable discovery - his brother's widow has found the
money and spent it. What's more, Johnny's brother had a daughter he
didn't know about. Her gift? She can catch cans if you throw them
at her head. No matter how many, no matter how fast.&,nbsp,The
old man and the teenaged girl become an unlikely duo as Johnny is
chased by his bosses goons from stash to stash across Florida, in
what is, in more ways than one, a hilarious and moving race against
time, in one of the most inventive and original debuts ever.
Výber kníh autorov
Melville House Publishing ,
Ladee Hubbard
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Melville House Publishing,
Ladee Hubbard
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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