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By the Light of My Father's Smile

Published
Sep 1998
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General Fiction General Fiction
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222

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A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--Susannah, the writer-to-be; her sister, Magdalena; and their father and mother. There, amid an endangered band of mixed-race blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream.

Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their magical stories, Walker brilliantly explores the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much prized and necessary original self--and how she regains that self, even as her family's past of lies and love is transformed. . . .

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Sep 1999 Ballantine ISBN 0345426061
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First Edition Sep 1998 Random House ISBN 0375501525
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Jan 1999 Turtleback Books ISBN 0606179852
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Aug 1999 Turtleback Books ISBN 0613212762
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Sep 1998 Random House Audio ISBN 0375404740
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