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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Indians of Mexico--Mixed descent.

Indians of Mexico--Mixed descent--Fiction.

Indians of Mexico.

Mexico--Fiction.

Mexico.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 222 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 1998.

Summary:

The first new novel in six years by the author of "The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar", and "Possessing the Secret of Joy". To an outpost in the remote Sierras in Mexico comes a family from the United States--the writer to be, Susannah; her sister Magdalena; her father and mother. Here they begin, amidst the Mundo, an endangered band of mixed race blacks and Indians, an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream.

Contents:

Angels

A Kiss Between the Dead is a Breeze

Fathers.

Notes:

Book design by J. K. Lambert.

Jacket design: Robbin Schiff.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0375501525

OCLC:

38324582