Getting Mother's Body: a Novel Reprint edition

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.