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      By the Light of My Father's Smile

      by Alice Walker
      Published
      Sep 1998
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      222
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      A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--Susannah, the writer-to-be; her sister, Magdalena; and their father and mother. There, amid an endangered band of mixed-race blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream.

      Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their magical stories, Walker brilliantly explores the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much prized and necessary original self--and how she regains that self, even as her family's past of lies and love is transformed. . . .

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      Sep 1999 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345426062 ISBN10 0345426061
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      First Edition Sep 1998 Random House ISBN13 9780375501524 ISBN10 0375501525
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      Jan 1999 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780606179850 ISBN10 0606179852
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      Aug 1999 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780613212762 ISBN10 0613212762
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      Jan 2012 Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN13 9781780222974 ISBN10 1780222971
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      Sep 1998 Random House Audio ISBN13 9780375404740 ISBN10 0375404740
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