Oreo Binding:Paperback from the treatment of enslaved

from the treatment of enslaved women to the American maternal health crises

" --Oprah Daily - "Shamieh balances her characters' painful family history and their boisterously funny voices

In a lyric

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Oreo Binding:Paperback from the treatment of enslavedOreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with