Marked by Fire - Softcover

Thomas, Joyce Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038081434X ISBN 13: 9780380814343

Publisher: Avon Books, 1999

Synopsis

Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.Abby, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, learns the secrets of folk medicine from the healer Mother Barker as she grows up

About this title

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Thomas was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and now lives in California. A poet, novelist, and playwright, she has been honored with the National Book Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Award for her work. In her latest book of poetry, A Mother's Heart, A Daughter's Love: Poems for Us to Share, she reflects on the lifelong relationship between mothers and daughters.

Review:

"A lyrical celebration of black womanhood tempered by both pain and joy." -- Booklist, Starred Review

"Concerns human strength and frailty. It is a book about girls and women and the men in their lives. It tells of the best and worst time experienced by a small black community during a 20-year period...Well worth reading." -- Alice Childress, The New York Times

"I believe this to be an important first novel. Joyce Carol Thomas's characters enact the verities of human life: romance, apprehension, loss, and hope, and they perform on the author's real life stage." -- Maya Angelou

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 038081434X
• ISBN 13: 9780380814343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176