Adventures Among the X Challenged

Tennessee Reed

ISBN 10: 1493129252 / ISBN 13: 9781493129256

Published by Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, 2013

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As a result of a learning disability, Dakota struggled to get through her undergraduate years, but came through school with flying colors. But as she began her employment career, her troubles began. First she was assigned to a mentor named Valerie whose idea of mentoring was to come to the class ten minutes before class ended. Dakota's students were older than she and took advantage of the difference by harassing her and ridiculing her. She finally quit the teaching profession when the authorities confessed they couldn't keep the students from assaulting professors. At her next job, her boss was a paraplegic who ran a cent for independent living with a strong hand. She had all of the charm of an Ahab and because she was physically disabled, she felt superior to those whose disabilities were invisible. Like those writers who've used levity and iron to make serious points, Jill Nelson, Alice Randall, Sola Agusston and Adrienne Kennedy, Tennessee Reed uses her Brueghelian gufts for descriptions of major and minor characters. She's armed with a wit that imparts a black humor, and a craftsperson's sense of scene, to create one of the most remarkable novels to come along in years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adventures Among the X Challenged
• Publisher: Ishmael Reed Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493129252
• ISBN 13: 9781493129256
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Tennessee Reed is a brand new star in the galaxy of our spirit-shining for all of our people-Simon Ortiz, author of Telling and Showing Her "Reed writes with clarity, wit, and wonder-and with an open-hearted passion that disarms, refreshes, and delights"-Al Young, author of Something About the Blues "I admire your poems very much . . . your exceptional imagination and profusion of imagery, your spirit, your perceptions, your sensibility. I treasure your book and really eagerly look forward to reading more . . . " Adrienne Kennedy, Obie award winning playwright "The younger they come the harder we fall" Vance Bourjaily, novelist "This is positive solid assertive poetic truths coming from where language makes it-language which was before us and will be after us-manifesting its power through a young receiving mind" Victor H. Cruz, poet

About the Author

Tennessee Reed is the author of six poetry collections, most recently New and Selected Poems 1982-2011, (World Parade Books, 2011), and a memoir Spell Albuquerque Memoirs of a "Difficult Student" (Counterpunch and AK Press, 2009). Adventures Among the X Challenged is her first published novel. Ms. Reed has read her work throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Palestine and Japan. She has received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.F.A from Mills College. Ms. Reed is the managing editor of Konch Magazine and the secretary of PEN Oakland