The Healing - (Celebrating Black Women Writers) by Gayl Jones (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observations about human nature are told with the rich lyricism of the oral storytelling tradition.</b> <p/>From the acclaimed author of <i>Corregidora</i>, <i>The Healing</i> follows Harlan Jane Eagleton as she travels to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds, and healing bodies. But before she found her calling, Harlan had been a minor rock star's manager and, before that, a beautician. Harlan retraces her story to the beginning, when she once had a fling with the rock star's ex-husband and found herself infatuated with an Afro-German horse dealer. Along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman across eastern Africa. Harlan draws us deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale: the story of her first healing. <p/><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 unfiltered dialogue, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic--and unexpected--beginning.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know--Calvin Baker, <i>The Atlantic</i> <p/> An important American writer . . . The Healing examines precisely what its title announces: healing from silence, from physical attacks and treachery, from spiritual and cultural isolation, from the pain of old-fashioned, aching, bluesy love . . . It is also a very funny book . . . A moving affirmation of forgiveness and trust . . . The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration -- Valerie Sayers<i> The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gayl Jones</b> is the author of several novels and books of poetry, including <i>Corregidora</i>, <i>Eva's Man</i>, <i>Song for Anninho</i>, and <i>Mosquito</i>. Her work has been widely praised by the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Boston Globe</i>, <i>Washington Post</i>, and others. She has taught at Wellesley College and the University of Michigan.
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