By the light of my father's smile : a novel / Alice Walker

Object Details

Summary

A novel on two black sisters whose father forbids teen sex and when one engages in it gives her a hiding. The novel explores "the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much-prized and necessary original self." By the author of The Color Purple.

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

1998

C1998

Author

Walker, Alice 1944-

Type

Fiction

Domestic fiction

Physical description

222 p. ; 25 cm

Place

Mexico

Topic

African Americans

Mixed descent

Record ID

siris_sil_793707

Usage

CC0