04062cam a2200853 4500 597898844 TxGeo 20220731120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807063163 0807063169 B01GMSYSM4 Amazon a536d496-bd4d-4537-a0e3-438393eb6588 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2795081 OverDrive (Product ID) 643112 643112 643112 TxGeo Jones, Gayl. The Healing [Libby]. Beacon Press, 2016. sisterhood. parenting. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 831kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 831kB. health. spiritual. Inspirational. African American. african american books. african american novels. books fiction. Short Stories. Essays. love story. feminism. Drama. healer. rock and roll. family. psychology. Death. relationships. Fiction. Spirituality. romance. novels. african american history. fiction books. Contemporary Romance. family life. African American fiction. realistic fiction books. literature. mystery. Saga. race. literary fiction. Historical Fiction. society. Faith. African American Literature. Literature. HTML:Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, <i>The New Republic</i><br /> Gayl Jones's first novel, <i>Corregidora</i>, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, <i>Eva's Man</i>, by writers and critics from all over the nation: John Updike, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman, and James Baldwin, to name a few. The publication of <i>The Healing</i>, her first novel in over twenty years, is a literary event.<br /> Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, traveling by bus to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale-the story of her first healing.<br /> <i>The Healing</i> is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic-and unexpected-beginning. Fiction. African American Fiction. Historical Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a536d496-bd4d-4537-a0e3-438393eb6588&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a536d496-bd4d-4537-a0e3-438393eb6588&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a536d496-bd4d-4537-a0e3-438393eb6588&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5