TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Alice TI - By the light of my father's smile: a novel SN - 0375501525 AV - PS 3573 W177b 1998 U1 - 813/.54 21 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - African Americans KW - Fiction KW - Indians of Mexico KW - Mixed descent KW - Afroamericanos KW - Ficción KW - Indígenas de México KW - Mexico KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/98005464.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/98005464.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411/98005464.html ER -