The Talented Ribkins

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A compulsively readable, big-hearted story about a family with special gifts who sometimes stumble in their efforts to succeed in life, The Talented Tenth draws on such novels as Toni Morrison's Sula and Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist to weave themes of race, class and politics into a wonderfully accomplished and engaging novel by a talented new author.A compulsively readable, big-hearted story about a family with special gifts who sometimes stumble in their efforts to succeed in life, The Talented Tenth draws on such novels as Toni Morrison's Sula and Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist to weave themes of race, class and politics into a wonderfully accomplished and engaging novel by a talented new author.
Ladee Hubbard received a BA in English from Princeton University where she wrote a creative thesis under the direction of Toni Morrison. She completed an MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University and a PhD in Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. She also received an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014, where she worked with Lorrie Moore, Jesse Lee Kercheval and Judith Mitchell. Hubbard is the winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award, and taken third place in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Award and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.