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Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, traveling by bus to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale - the story of her first healing.
The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic - and unexpected - beginning.
The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic - and unexpected - beginning.
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Cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration (New York Times)
A major literary event... surprising, romantic and wholly satisfying (Newsweek)
With this wily, witty testimony of good and bad faith, Jones triumphantly re-enters the fray - a trickster, a writer, and, with great fortune, a healer (Boston Globe)
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A major literary event... surprising, romantic and wholly satisfying (Newsweek)
With this wily, witty testimony of good and bad faith, Jones triumphantly re-enters the fray - a trickster, a writer, and, with great fortune, a healer (Boston Globe)
Harlan Jane Eagleton has an unexpected career change--from being the manager of a mediocre rock star to becoming a traveling faith healer.
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- PublisherBeacon Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0807063142
- ISBN 13 9780807063149
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
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