Title: Getting Mother's Body
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2003
Description: Learning that a company plans to dig up the area where her mother is buried, supposedly with a cache of jewels, Billy Beede, poor and pregnant, heads for Arizona to rescue her mother's body and search for the jewels that could bring her a new life.
Subjects: African American families, Poor families, Treasure trove, Fiction, Treasure troves, Treasure-trove, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Texas, fiction, African americans, fiction, Treasure-troves
Places: Texas
LC classification: PS3566.A736 G4 2003