By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker

By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker

By the Light of My Father's Smile is Alice Walker's first novel in six years--a stunning, original, and important book by one of the best American writers of today (The Washington Post).

A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And 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 stories, Walker crosses conventional borders of all kinds as she explores in this magical novel 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.

By the Light of My Father's Smile presents, as Alice Walker puts it, a celebration of sexuality, its absolute usefulness in the accessing of one's mature spirituality, and the father's role in assuring joy or sorrow in this arena for his female children. It explores the richness and coherence of alternative culture, experience of sexuality as a celebration of life, of trust in Nature and the Spirit, even as it affirms the belief, as Walker says, that it is the triumphant heart, not the conquered heart, that forgives. And that love is both timeless and beyond time.

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780345426062
ISBN 10	0345426061
Title	By the Light of My Father's Smile
Author	Alice Walker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-08-31
Number of pages	256
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