![]() ![]() Aunt Simone can alter her appearance any way she wants, while Uncle Bertrand can spit fire. The father who died before she was born had an uncanny ability to climb walls, while Johnny himself has a mysterious facility for making maps of places he’s never seen. ![]() “It does sound like a superhero group,” Hubbard says, “though that was not at all what he was talking about.”ĭu Bois’s suggestion resounds through Hubbard’s debut novel, The Talented Ribkins, where 72-year-old Johnny discovers his niece Eloise is the latest in the family to possess a peculiar gift. For the New Orleans-based writer and academic Ladee Hubbard, it’s an idea that chimes strangely with our era of blockbuster superheroes and Black Lives Matter, of Avengers Assemble and Donald Trump. ![]()
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