One Dark Body
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (663 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060169249 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Engaging characters and lilting prose illuminate this mythopoeic story. Raisin is raised by the midwife in the African American community of Pearl, Wash. Sherman also explores Nola's specters: her grief over El's death, her memories of a violent mother and her shame at deserting her child. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Among these are the spirit-women who usher her into womanhood, the Night People, ghosts of slaves who roam the woods near Pearl and protect their descendants, and the soul of her father, El, a suicide who refused the only work allowed black men in that town--coal-mining--and buried himself in a shallow grave before Raisin's birth. . Raisin finds solace in dreams and in communion with ancestral spirits who speak to her from the earth. (al
It wasn't a bad read Wadadili Sister This book was chosen this month by my Book Club. The book started a bit slow, kept you reading in the middle but left you standing at the end. I must admit I was left with alot of questions at the end.
A young girl reunites with the mother who abandoned her.