One Tough Cookie: Fran Ross’s “Oreo” Written Decades Before Its TimePosted in Articles, Book/Video Reviews, Judaism, Media Archive, Religion, United States on 2015-08-08 18:44Z by Steven |
One Tough Cookie: Fran Ross’s “Oreo” Written Decades Before Its Time
Lawrence Public Library
707 Vermont Street
Lawrence, Kansas
2015-07-31
Kate Gramlich
There are a handful of books I have re-read several times because I found some deep, emotional connection with the characters, and each read is like a conversation with a dear old friend. (I have a dear new friend who revisits To Kill a Mockingbird every year for similar reasons and to see how his opinions on the text change over time.)
Then there are books I have re-read because I just know that I didn’t catch everything the author was throwing down the first time. And I’m here to tell you, folks, that Fran Ross’s Oreo is the queen of those books. Oreo’s heroine’s journey to find the “secret of her birth” had me laughing aloud and wrapping my brain around awesome word puzzles the entire time.
Though originally published in 1974 (more on that later), Oreo was re-printed by New Directions in July of this year, and I was lucky enough to grab it right off our New Fiction shelves at LPL last week…
Read the entire review here.