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4 · 286 pages · First published 1992
The acclaimed author of The Color Purple presents a provocative story of a young tribal African woman who lives most of her adult life in America. Tashi submits to her people's custom of genital mutilation. Severely traumatize d by the experience, she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying to regain the ability to recognize her own reality.
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Abused womenAfrican American womenAfrican AmericansFemale circumcisionFicciónFictionMujeres afronorteamericanasPsychological fictionPsychologyWomen immigrantsMental illnessBlack womenLiteratureEnglish languageUnited StatesNovels (form)Fiction, generalAfrican americans, fictionAfrica, fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)
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- Washington Square Press, Audioworks, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A., New Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, Brand: Audioworks
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- und, eng, spa, jpn