About this book
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.
- Abused women
- African American women
- African Americans
- Female circumcision
- Ficción
- Fiction
- Mujeres afronorteamericanas
- Psychological fiction
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