Marked by fire
By: Joyce Carol Thomas.
Series: An Avon/Flare book
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Community life -- Fiction; Healers -- Fiction; Traditional medicine -- Fiction; Oklahoma -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.
Notes: American Book Award, 1983