{"product_id":"the-healing-isbn-9780807080931","title":"The Healing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observations about human nature are told with the rich lyricism of the oral storytelling tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e follows Harlan Jane Eagleton as she travels to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds, and healing bodies. But before she found her calling, Harlan had been a minor rock star’s manager and, before that, a beautician. Harlan retraces her story to the beginning, when she once had a fling with the rock star’s ex-husband and found herself infatuated with an Afro-German horse dealer. Along the way she’s somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman across eastern Africa. Harlan draws us deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale: the story of her first healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e 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 unfiltered dialogue, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic—and unexpected—beginning.\"The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know\"—Calvin Baker, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An important American writer . . . The Healing examines precisely what its title announces: healing from silence, from physical attacks and treachery, from spiritual and cultural isolation, from the pain of old-fashioned, aching, bluesy love . . . It is also a very funny book . . . A moving affirmation of forgiveness and trust . . . The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration\" — Valerie Sayers\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGayl Jones\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University, and has taught at Wellesley College and the University of Michigan. Her landmark books include \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEva’s Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Healing \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Award finalist and\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year), \u003ci\u003ePalmares \u003c\/i\u003e(a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction), and most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Birdcatcher\u003c\/i\u003e (National Book Award finalist).","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304511164645,"sku":"NP9780807080931","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807080931.jpg?v=1767739732","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-healing-isbn-9780807080931","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}