Cover of Marked by fire

Book 1982

Marked by fire

5 readers

Publisher
Avon Books
Language
English
Published
1982
  • African Americans -- Fiction
  • Community life -- Fiction
  • Healers -- Fiction
  • Traditional medicine -- Fiction
  • Oklahoma -- Fiction

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.