Getting Mother's Body

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks's wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother's Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried--or were they?--with Billy's fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother's Body is a true spiritual successor to the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker--but when it comes to bringing hard-luck characters to ingenious, uproarious life, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 04/13/2004
ISBN: 9780812968002
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citations: BookPage 04/01/2004 pg. 10
New York Times 04/25/2004 pg. 24