OREO by Fran Ross

Oreo aka Christine Clark is the product of an African American mother and Jewish father.  Her parents divorced when she was a toddler and her father left the scene and never came back.  When she reaches her teens, she travels from Philadelphia to New York in search of him.  Oreo is a witty, smart and revengeful when she sees a person doing wrong to another person or animal.

 A satirical and witty tale that touches on feminism, ethnicities and idiosyncrasies, the author uses subtle Greek inferences in Oreo’s journey. 

I picked this off the shelves because it looked new and I was intrigued by the title.  Turns out the late author worked with the late, great comedian Richard Pryor.