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NeBAS: Never Been A Slave is a story that not only transcends time and tradition, but brings the reader full circle to the discovery that true acceptance and the power to heal are found firmly in the family. NeBAS: Never Been A Slave is at times terrifying, at other times quite funny, but is, in the end, engaging and uplifting. The often comedic and light tone of NeBAS: Never Been A Slave reads like a fable it is inviting and never overwhelming or manipulative.

Meiselman has had enough. After a life spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man¿"number two" at a suburban Chicago public library, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss¿is looking to come out on top, at last. What seems like an ordinary week in 2004 will prove to be a golden opportunity (at least in his mind) to reverse a lifetime of petty humiliations. And no one¿not his newly observant wife, not the Holocaust survivor neighbor who regularly disturbs his sleep with her late-night gardening, and certainly not the former-classmate-turned-renowned-author who's returning to the library for a triumphant literary homecoming¿will stand in his way."Meiselman is a triumph of comic escalation." ¿ Sam Lipsyte, author of Hark and The Ask