An Antebellum Oz (Choice Press 2025) by Joseph Eldredge is a boldly reimagined The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in which six friends—three free siblings, three enslaved youths—on a Mississippi farm at the beginning of the Civil War find themselves uplifted in a hurricane and set down in Oz. The story is inventive, thought-provoking, and engrossing […]
“Antebellum Oz” by Joseph Eldredge
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Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Joseph Eldredge, author of “An Antebellum Oz”
Claire Hamner Matturro: Congratulations, Joseph Eldredge, and thank you for taking the time to chat with me a bit over your new release, An Antebellum Oz, a creative, hard-hitting retelling of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The story is set in April of 1861, which our readers will recognize as the beginning […]
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