Title: Possessing the secret of joy /
Authors: Walker, Alice, 1944-
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Year: 1992
Subjects: African American women Fiction; Women immigrants Fiction; Female circumcision Fiction.; Abused women Fiction; Africa Fiction
Abstract: The acclaimed author of The Color Purple presents a provocative story of a young tribal African woman who lives most of her adult life in America. Tashi submits to her people's custom of genital mutilation. Severely traumatize d by the experience, she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying to regain the ability to recognize her own reality.