Getting Mother's Body: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 081296800X
- ISBN-13
- 9780812968002
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-04-13
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Author
- Suzan-Lori Parks
Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried—or were they?—with Billy’s fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother’s Body is a true spiritual successor to the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker—but when it comes to bringing hard-luck characters to ingenious, uproarious life, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.
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