With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James`A rollicking little masterpiece... one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I`ve stumbled across in recent years` Paul Auster Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, & her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo`s quest is to find her father, & discover the secret of her birth. What ensues in Fran Ross`s opus is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, & mixing standard English, black vernacular, & Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios & brothels & subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing & triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.