Getting Mother’s Body

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried–or were they?–with Billy’s fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother’s Body is a true spiritual successor to the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker–but when it comes to bringing hard-luck characters to ingenious, uproarious life, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.

Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 04/13/2004
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780812968002
Language: English