By the light of my father's smile : a novel /

Walker, Alice, 1944-

By the light of my father's smile : a novel / Alice Walker. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c1998. - 222 p. ; 25 cm.

A novel on two black sisters whose father forbids teen sex and when one engages in it gives her a hiding. The novel explores "the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much-prized and necessary original self." By the author of The Color Purple.

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African Americans--Fiction.
Indians of Mexico--Mixed descent--Fiction.
Afroamericanos--Ficción.
Indígenas de México --Ficción.


Mexico--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PS 3573 / W177b 1998

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