Book 1982
Marked by fire
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- 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.