Possessing the secret of joy / Alice Walker.

Title:

ISBN:

9781595583642

9780671789428

9780151731527

Personal Author:

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Publication Information:

New York : New Press, [2008]

Physical Description:

286 pages ; 21 cm

General Note:

Originally published: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt Brace, 1992.

Summary:

After undergoing a brutal procedure of female genital mutilation in Africa, Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple, immigrates to the United States and, following her struggles to understand her past, eventually discovers the secret of joy.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Fiction

Subject Term:

African American women -- Fiction

African American women -- Psychology -- Fiction.

Women immigrants--United States -- Fiction.

Female genital mutilation -- Fiction

Abused women -- Fiction

Black women -- Fiction

Black women -- Psychology -- Fiction

Genre:

Psychological fiction