Black Lit Book Group

Black Lit Book Group with Micah
Co-led by Greenlight bookseller Paige Davis
Discusses Oreo by Fran Ross
Led by Greenlight bookseller Micah, with special appearances from fellow Greenlight booksellers, our Black Lit Book Group meets monthly to amplify the works of past and present Black voices of all genres. All reading frequencies are welcome!

For April, the group discusses Fran Ross' Oreo, a pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios, brothels, and subway tunnels in Manhattan in what 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 wisecracking aplomb.