Possessing the secret of joy
By: Alice Walker.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781595583642
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction; Women immigrants -- United States -- Fiction; Female circumcision -- Fiction; Abused women -- Fiction; Africa -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt Brace, 1992.