The Talented Ribkins

✍ Scribed by Ladee Hubbard

• Publisher: Melville House
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 139 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

**"For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard's original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself." --Toni Morrison
"The Talented Ribkins is a charming and delightful debut novel with a profound heart, and Ladee Hubbard's voice is a welcome original." --Mary Gaitskill
• An INDIE NEXT 2017 pick
• Winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award
• **Winner of the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Prize
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**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 for Johnny.
What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes from an African-American family that has been gifted with rather super powers that are rather sad, but superpowers nonetheless. For example, Johnny's father could see colors no one else could see. His brother could scale perfectly flat walls. His cousin...