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THE TALENTED RIBKINS – Ladee Hubbard

~ Hardcover

~ Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Novel – 2018

At seventy-two, 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 . . .  

Inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ famous essay ‘The Talented Tenth’ and fueled by Ladee Hubbard’s marvelously original imagination, The Talented Ribkins is a big-hearted debut novel about race, politics, and the unique gifts that, while they may cause some problems from time to time, bind a family together.

“For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself.” — Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Song of Solomon