Memoirs of a Dead White Chick, by Lennox Randon
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It began as one of those days when I asked myself, what else could go wrong? And then I died. Eleanor, a harried, middle-aged White female elementary schoolteacher (and former police officer), begins her day by dying in the year 1999. Somehow, while her essence is en route to wherever one’s essence goes upon death, she inadvertently ends up occupying the body of a 16-year-old Black male in 1858 Philadelphia. Not only does she have to deal with the obvious gender, race, and time period changes, but she also has to figure out whether, when lives are at stake, she should interfere with history as she knows it.
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- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Released on: 2015-09-01
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Memoirs of a Dead White Chick, by Lennox Randon About the Author Lennox Randon is a graduate of the Houston Police Academy and The University of Texas at Austin, and has worked as a police officer, an elementary school teacher, and a technical writer. As of this writing, Randon is living with metastatic GIST cancer. Though born and raised in Texas, Randon currently lives in Iowa.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Memoirs of a Dead White Chick is Ultra Memorable By Rebecca Sloan At first blush, Lennox Randon’s new novel, Memoirs of a Dead White Chick, is a digression from his debut novel, Friends Dogs Bullets Lovers, but after much consideration, it’s easy to see that they are both etudes from the same composer. And that’s what this author is—a composer. Of words, images, ideas, emotions and of cultural references both real and imagined. Like FDBL, every sentence of Memoirs is infused with the author’s sardonic wit and a musical cadence that keeps you reading and wanting to read more.The author also managed to instill a similar theme in both novels—how a fish out of water survives and prevails. In FDBL, it’s an Black Iowa cop who has to relocate to Austin, Texas, in a Witness Protection Program. In Memoirs, it’s a 41-year-old White Texas woman (ex-cop, current teacher) who is killed and through the mystery of moving lights, is reincarnated into the body of a 16-year-old Black male in of all years—1858!—and with all her memories intact. Now that’s a relocation that only a very creative, inventive mind like Lennox Randon can realize in moving, compelling and, yes, witty prose.[SPOILER ALERT]Then Randon gets us into some very serious stuff. Eleanor/Matthew just happens to be in the right place at the wrong time and gets abducted from relatively slave-free Philadelphia and forced into slavery on a Maryland tobacco plantation. Then unwittingly, she/he is juxtaposed with John Brown just before he leads the raid on Harper’s Ferry. And then, because of the Butterfly Effect, the history as Eleanor knew it is forever altered. At this point, I took the time to Google John Brown and Harper’s Ferry and maps of the region described and was rewarded with not only my refreshment of my limited knowledge of history and geography but the awareness of how well Lennox Randon captured historical events and made me feel like I was there.Memoirs of A Dead White Chick is a perfect title for such an unusual narrative. The language is a marvelous blend of 19th Century verbiage and historical fact with 20th Century lingo and cultural references. My only criticism is that the end came too quickly. I wanted to know more and then I was on the last page. Hopefully, this means the author has a sequel already in mind.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A very interesting premise By Cheryl M-M A middle-aged white woman from our era inside the body of teenage black boy in the late 1850's. An interesting premise, and one I presumed would be written with the agenda of shedding light on the plight of slaves in America. I expected Randon to make his point with a sledgehammer and leave no stones unturned and certainly take no prisoners.Instead Randon is subtle in his approach, and it actually does seem as if the story is written by a middle-aged white woman.Randon depicts the struggle between North and South before the outbreak of the civil war. How different the opinions are about slavery or the plight of slaves from one state to the other. Treated like little more than property, with no voice, no rights and no possible end to their situation in sight. Families ripped apart and subject to the whims, moods and brutality of sadists.Eleanor experiences the injustice, the decrepit conditions and the inhumanity towards her, all because the colour of her skin has now made her a second class human being. She accepts her new surroundings and circumstances without so much as a second thought. I think I would be filled with rage at the injustice of being treated like property or worse than an animal.I often wonder what I would be able to remember if I ever ended up in the past. Would I be able to remember anything useful? How Penicillin was discovered, the lotto numbers in a certain year, what invention to invest in or how create electricity. Would I be able to resist changing the course of history?The one element of the story that didn't gel completely right for me was Eleanor transforming into a surgeon or medical expert at one point. Time-travel or soul travel does not equate to the acquisition of brand new skills, such as medical knowledge.I enjoyed the idea and admit to being surprised by the way Randon decided to let the idea speak for itself instead of using the idea as a tool or a voice.I received a free copy of this book, courtesy of Smith Publicity.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Intriguing and worthwhile, thought-provoking and enlightening, and comical too By Carol Kean Historical fiction, delivered in the form of an entertaining novel, is my favorite way to learn things our school teachers neglected to tell us. "Memoirs of a Dead White Chick" is filled with pains-taking research and rich, accurate detail that brings the past to life.In a blog interview with author Dennis Green, Lennox Randon tells the true-life incident that inspired this story: in 1991 or 1992, at a museum in Houston, he saw an art exhibit of Jacob Lawrence paintings from 1939 and 1940 that focused on the lives of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. According to a caption below one painting, Tubman suffered a head injury as a slave and for the rest of her life suffered a condition that caused her to fall asleep with no warning, and it was impossible for anyone to wake her until sufficient time had passed. Randon says, "I was blown away that, despite her medical condition, she risked her life repeatedly to free slaves. Tubman’s story and courage inspired me to begin writing Memoirs of a Dead White Chick. A large portion of the story concept came to me almost instantly. As I did more and more research, though, I began to wonder whether the Civil War was the best way or the only way to end slavery, and that question informed much of the rest of the story." (from "Dennis Green & I Interview Each Other," lennoxrandon.com/wordpress)What amazes me is how Randon uses this detail in a novel about a 21st Century American woman who is zapped back to the pre-Civil War South.He also brings us John Brown and all Brown's family members and friends, teaching us facets of history most Americans don't know (but should).Then there's the time travel twist. Our narrator tells us she did in fact do something that changed the history of the world. Because of Eleanor, the event at Harper's Ferry takes a different turn, which in turn causes -- well, it's better to read the book. How time travel changed the future isn't what matters here. It's what Eleanor learns while occupying the body of a 16-year-old Black male in 1858 that matters.One thing she doesn't learn too fast is that the Matthew everyone knew would never talk the way 21st Century American Eleanor would talk. It gets Matthew into some trouble, but it gets him out of trouble as well.Certain things may make certain readers squeamish, so any one-star bandits who don't like profanity or sexual details should be forewarned. Men who write from the point of view of a woman tend to focus on boobs and other body parts in a way that women readers generally do not.Fans of the body-swap genre may enjoy this as much as "Freaky Friday" -- and fans of "Twelve Years a Slave" will find plenty of injustice, racism, historical atrocities and darkness to balance the comedy.In all, this is an intriguing and worthwhile read, thought provoking and enlightening.
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