Ladee Hubbard
Autor(a) de The Talented Ribkins
About the Author
Image credit: Author Ladee Hubbard at the 2017 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64091714
Obras de Ladee Hubbard
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1970
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Florida, USA
US Virgin Islands - Educação
- University of Wisconsn, Madison (MFA)
UCLA (PhD)
Princeton University (BA)
New York University (MFA) - Organizações
- Tulane University
- Premiações
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award (2016)
7 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence (2017) - Agente
- Ayesha Panda Literary
Membros
Resenhas
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Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 316
- Popularidade
- #74,771
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 24
- ISBNs
- 28
- Idiomas
- 3
Rating 3.75
While the characters and plot are unusual, I can't help but feel it's missing the mark due to far too many characters, subplots and its lackluster ending. A racially driven tale about a cook, grounds keeper and others that evolves into the marketing of a stolen recipe for a rib sauce. The plot is extremely convoluted using characters whose objectives keep changing. The central figure is Sitwell, a black gardener who gets promoted to butler then is given credit for a meat sauce due to fine tuned fragrance skills he'd become known for. When his appearance is used for the label the company brands it Rib King and plans using him to promote it. A closet drinker, he finds himself in the middle of a fiasco while racial protests rage. From here the story spins into a new direction focused on one of the women he worked with when he was groundskeeper. While its well written and paced, I found that the lack of depth and repetitive subplots took away from the momentum, though overall, I enjoyed the story. Having researched the author, it turns out this was her second story, so I'm reading the debut novel for comparison. Its worth reading if you enjoy stories from the years when segregation was in the throws of being resolved AND if your preference is drama.… (mais)